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You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
Azim Premji
Leadership
You
Commitment
Long
Build
Way
Only
Excellence
Long-Term
Term
Because
Which
Need
There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
Azim Premji
Time
Needs
Family
You
Patience
Trust
Three
Leader
Build
Philanthropy
Scale
Tenacity
Remarkable
Driver
Institution
Involve
She
Spouse
Up
Your
Choose
Lessons
Initiative
Whom
Two
Need
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
Azim Premji
Great
Journey
Excellence
Point
New
Also
Unending
Any
Organisation
Starting
Starting Point
What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
Azim Premji
Nature
Competition
Our
Ourselves
About
Excellence
Part
Global
Beyond
Imposed
Expect
Going
Little
Customers
Us
Toes
Keeps
Need
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
Azim Premji
Life
Success
You
Value
Luck
Underestimate
Learned
Cannot
Really
Appreciate
The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.
Azim Premji
Setting
India
Colleges
Various
Taking
Individuals
Particularly
Schools
Partnerships
Came
Up
Families
Forms
Who
Oriented
Original
Villages
Socially
Universities
If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
Azim Premji
Natural
Wealth
Responsibility
Blessed
Society
Enough
Has-Been
More
Purposes
Terms
Got
How
Been
Normal
Than
Expects
Much
Certain
Used
Fortunate
Applied
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.
Azim Premji
Business
Engineering
Our
System
Consulting
Primarily
Integration
Model
Business Model
Services
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.
Azim Premji
Generation
Wealth
Responsibility
Sense
Think
Characteristic
Some
New
New Generation
Any
Which
Created
Creates
Amount
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.
Azim Premji
World
Affect
Provided
Western
Western World
Loves
Them
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.
Azim Premji
States
Markets
Must
Indian
Protectionism
Access
Very
Get
Wants
Subtle
Chinese
Much
Vietnamese
United
United States
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
Azim Premji
Sports
Country
Outdoors
Colleges
More
Perhaps
Because
Lot
Than
America
Produce
Engineers
Therapists
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.
Azim Premji
You
Engineering
Students
Studied
Perhaps
Know
America
Want
Grind
Engineers
Who
Britain
People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
Azim Premji
Education
People
Key
Own
Control
Other
Take
Like
Also
Because
Healthcare
Social
Lives
Raises
Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
Azim Premji
Frankly
Global
Know
Globally
How
Truly
Which
Companies
Many
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
Azim Premji
Seen
Ourselves
Muslims
Indian
Never
Buddhists
Hindus
Always
Christians
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
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