Azim Premji

Businessman

India

1945 - Present

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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
How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
Azim Premji
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
Azim Premji
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
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
Azim Premji
The importance of this success of Wipro has become manifold more, because it's the success of Wipro that enables the possibility of making a difference to some of the most disadvantaged people in the world.
Azim Premji
I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
Azim Premji
I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.
Azim Premji
The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
Azim Premji
Wipro is one of the fastest growing companies regionally and globally, and I am personally very excited with our journey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Azim Premji