Azim Premji Quotes & Sayings

“The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.”

“People are the key to success or extraordinary success.”

“Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.”

“You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.”

“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.”

“A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.”

“The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.”

“With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.”

“I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.”

“If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.”