Azim Premji's Quotes

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.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

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.

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.

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.

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

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.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.