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“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.”
“People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.”
“If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.”
“I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.”
“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.”
“I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.”
“It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.”
“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.”
“You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.”
“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 responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.”
“Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.”
“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.”
“Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.”
“I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.”
“Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.”
“Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.”
“People are the key to success or extraordinary success.”
“We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.”
“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.”