The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
Azim Premji
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
Wipro Arabia is a joint venture company with Dar Al Riyadh, a well-diversified group in Saudi Arabia.
You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.
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.
Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.
The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.
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.
The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.
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.
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.
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.
Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn't talked about it in depth.
Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.
The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
Western companies want access to Indian talent. That is why they outsource; that is why they come to India to set up base.
Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.
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.
The West is not producing enough engineers.
If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.
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.
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
