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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
Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
B. R. Ambedkar
Care
Generally
Never
How
Explain
Speaking
Why
The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
B. R. Ambedkar
Food
Classes
Classified
Habits
Also
Hindus
Been
Cults
Fixed
Just
Different
Basis
The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
B. R. Ambedkar
Matter
Eat
Objection
Habit
Course
Without
Cow
Whether
Against
Them
Flesh
Stand
Who
United
One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.
Baba Kalyani
Criteria
Only
Countries
Global
Should
Manufacturing
Exporter
Company
Multiple
Presence
Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.
Baba Kalyani
Focus
New Things
Our
More
Demand
New
How
Real
How Much
Existing
Going
Capacities
Much
Fulfil
Things
In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
Baba Kalyani
Health
Good
Good Health
Key
Political
Situation
India
Economic
Economic Situation
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Well
Robust
Doing
Reflected
Stable
I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
Baba Kalyani
Big
Collection
City
Some
Something
Well
Boy
Still
Bike
Bikes
Riding
Largest
Fat
Two
Harley
With liberalisation, Indian industry gained international exposure because of which it became imperative for companies to rework their strategies to become globally competitive.
Baba Kalyani
Become
Indian
Imperative
Globally
Industry
Became
Because
Which
Gained
Companies
International
Strategies
Exposure
Competitive
The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
Baba Kalyani
You
People
Important
Ability
Part
Most
Important Part
Integrate
Any
The Most Important
Acquire
Acquisition
Your
Companies
Company
We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
Baba Kalyani
Vision
Believe
Our
India
Direction
Joint
Proposed
Step
Make
Venture
We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
Baba Kalyani
Day
Every Day
Book
Year
Every
Market
Our
See
Rate
More
Spot
Than
Fixed
Get
Forward
Exports
Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
Baba Kalyani
Government
Opportunities
Country
Depend
Strategy
Our
Sectors
Must
Participate
Import
Imports
Provide
Domestic
Substitution
Which
Should
Companies
Based
India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
Baba Kalyani
Destination
Considered
India
Consumption
Demand
Global
Well
Still
Domestic
Preferred
Manufacture
Products
Many
Multinational
I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
Baba Kalyani
Own
Would
My Own
Take
Had
Years
Years Ago
Motor
Which
Boat
The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
Baba Kalyani
Business
Space
Medium
Back
Our
Markets
Indian
Vehicle
Concerned
Because
Contracted
Domestic
Contraction
Commercial
Heavy
As Far As
Far
Exports
Grown
Largely
Actually
The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
Baba Kalyani
Too Much
Engineering
Too
Our
Easing
Steel
Price
Raw
Raw Material
Because
Does
Material
Role
Commodities
Commodity
Much
Really
Play
Basic
Margins
In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
Baba Kalyani
Space
Some
Wins
New
New Order
Order
Activities
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