Top 44 Quotes by Azim Premji

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

Certain product lines are more suited to be manufactured in proximity with the customer, while others are more suitable to be manufactured in India.

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.

We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

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.

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.