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Azim Premji
Indian
Businessman
Born:
Jul 24
,
1945
Because
Business
Education
People
Wealth
You
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Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.
Azim Premji
You
Business
Experience
Difficult
Our
Negotiate
Investments
Feet
Terms
Terribly
Got
How
How Much
Issue
Up
Stability
Front
China
Much
Your
Ground
We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.
Azim Premji
Government
Food
You
Commitment
People
School
Own
Pay
Kind
Run
Sundays
Find
Stay
Remarkable
School Teachers
Courses
Teachers
Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.
Azim Premji
Wealth
Digest
Would
Would-Be
Give
More
Small
Small Part
Lifetimes
Part
Than
Children
Many
Even
The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
Azim Premji
Old
Closed
Club
Relationships
Way
Out
Tennis
Tennis Court
Court
Boy
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
Azim Premji
Relationship
Selfish
Favor
Remarkably
He
Takes
Execution
His
Person
Where
Customer
I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
Azim Premji
Think
Has-Been
Muslim
Disadvantage
Advantage
Been
Being
We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.
Azim Premji
Technology
People
Build
Engineering
Scale
Global
Involve
Understand
How
Manage
Businesses
Large
Platform
Large-Scale
Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.
Azim Premji
Education
Government
Sector
Primary
Private
Private Sector
Role
Substitute
Cannot
My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn't talked about it in depth.
Azim Premji
Me
Business
Young
Nothing
About
Join
He
Firm
Talked
Died
Quite
Wanted
In-Depth
Depth
Dad
Wipro Arabia is a joint venture company with Dar Al Riyadh, a well-diversified group in Saudi Arabia.
Azim Premji
Group
Arabia
Joint
Venture
Company
Al
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
Azim Premji
Arabia
Proved
Engine
Growth
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
You can do clean business in India.
Azim Premji
You
Business
India
Clean
Western companies want access to Indian talent. That is why they outsource; that is why they come to India to set up base.
Azim Premji
India
Indian
Outsource
Talent
Come
Access
Western
Up
Want
Companies
Base
Why
Set
Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.
Azim Premji
Son
Father
Responsibilities
Run
Running
Indian
Given
Joint
Division
Combination
Involved
Because
Up
Being
Where
CEO
Interestingly
Organizations
Companies
Many
Company
Actively
The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.
Azim Premji
Leadership
Strong
Challenge
Value
Face
Build
Our
More
Also
Principal
Go
End
Up
Front
Much
Chain
Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
Azim Premji
People
Management
More
Tend
Managerial
Technical
To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.
Azim Premji
You
Technology
People
Training
Rare
Build
Understanding
Difficult
Strongly
Invest
Selecting
Combination
Integrated
Lot
Managers
Who
Deep
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
Azim Premji
Science
People
Engineering
Our
Our People
Members
Faculty
Leading
Institute
First-Rate
Train
Get
We believe that two people who have worked together for more than 10 years and been in the company for more than 15 years would be able to work very well as a team.
Azim Premji
Work
Together
People
Believe
Would
Would-Be
Able
More
Well
Been
Years
Very
Than
Worked
Team
Who
Company
Two
Two People
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