Azim Premji

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other. ”

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. ”

You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to prioritise them better; we need to grow them better, mind them better. We need to give more value to them, and we need to execute a lot of areas in the organisation where we are not executing. ”

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence. ”

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. ”

Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good. ”

I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged. ”

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked. ”

I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family. ”

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. ”