Azim Premji

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. ”

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors. ”

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact. ”

Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity. ”

I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern. ”

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education. ”

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity. ”

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality. ”

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers. ”

There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute. ”