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N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Indian
Businessman
Born:
Aug 20
,
1946
About
Good
People
Think
World
You
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
You
Change
Nothing
Staying
Stuck
Where
Painful
Growth
Belong
When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Time
Good
Character
You
Business
Better
Long
Long Time
Employees
Build
Become
Control
Bad
More
Costs
Through
Bad Times
Good Times
Learn
Go
Times
Customers
Transparent
Therefore
Company
Satisfy
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Leadership
People
Doing The Right Thing
Right Thing
About
Vast
Doing
Going
The Right Thing
Against
Even
Right
Thing
Number
Mediocre
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Life
Technology
Science
People
Better
Power
Engineering
About
Cost
Make
Comfort
Reduce
Improve
Etc
Productivity
Using
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
People
Men
Rich
Society
Earned
Part
Context
Off
Forget
Get
Common
Them
Cut
Themselves
Riches
India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Future
Time
Generation
Opportunities
Independence
Responsibility
Society
Our
Corrected
Ensure
India
Civilised
Failed
Development
Failures
Since
Equal
Also
Known
Same
Same Time
Happened
Create
Much
Help
Many
Many Levels
Levels
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Deferred
About
Entrepreneurship
Gratification
Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Today
Good
Corporation
Talent
Biggest
Availability
Growth
Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Finance
Best
Happy
Quality
World
Indian
Could
Implement
Operations
Am
Legacy
Standards
Company
Compare
I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
People
Money
Think
Enormous
Sums
Follow
Examples
Given
Like
Shining
Us
Bill
Bill Gates
Who
Away
Gates
I have always focused on the bottom line.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Focused
Bottom
Bottom Line
Always
Line
I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Politics
Suited
Enter
No Desire
Because
Am
Desire
I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Finance
You
First
Pay
Benefit
Say
Ministers
Give
Only
Small
Arguing
Beyond
Exempt
Limit
Been
Tax
Taxes
Should
Your
Successive
Businessman
Companies
Profits
I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Time
Good
Man
Good Man
Long
Long Time
He
Known
Decent
Decent Man
Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Work
Quality
Value
Made
Add
Corporations
Indian
More
Efficient
Much
Productivity
Helped
Enhancing
Sufficient
Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Seen
Would
Most
His
Model
Role
Role Model
Officer
Children
Want
Dishonest
Even
India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Needs
High
India
Rate
Sustain
Growth
Growth Rate
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
World
Power
Revolution
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Became
Because
England
World Power
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Hope
Best
You
Business
Unfinished
Better
Mind
Will
Somebody
Sense
Faster
Baton
Relay
Run
Ability
Having
No Sense
Part
Pass
Done
Just
Your
Who
Marathon
Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Best
Technology
Needy
Enough
Solution
Scenario
Support
Reach
Although
Healthcare
Often
Poor
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Change
World
Our
Minds
Constant
Only
Impediment
Outside
Biggest
Growth
I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Karma
Somebody
Collect
Data
Call
Am
Lot
Yogi
Who
Believes
The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Democracy
Power
Few
Citizens
About
Delegation
Vast
Vast Majority
Through
Merit
Majority
Principle
Representatives
Chosen
Competence
Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Enormous
System
Steady
Outside
Absorb
Accept
Without
Hinduism
Influences
Capacity
Manner
Peaceful
Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Food
Welcome
Benefits
Will
Ensure
Consumer
Step
Any
Grains
Poor
Poorest
Mechanism
Helps
Waste
The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Politics
World
Problems
Economics
Says
High
India
Solving
Table
Leaders
Attention
Major
Most
Heard
Expects
Multilateral
Seriousness
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