Azim Premji Quotes (11 Quotes)

We must overhaul our land laws, taxes and information system. Some 90 per cent of land in India is subject to legal disputes over ownership,

I think they are getting their act together now. Fundamentally GM is a very strong company. I think it will pull out of it faster than people expect them to.

My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

It is heading to be the IT capital of the country. That's very good.

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

The dividend payouts will be more generous than in the past two years and will be broadly in line with what we told investors in the last quarter,

It is no longer the issue of whether one should focus on China, or India versus China, but of India and China.

For us Japan is a much higher priority. We find there are challenges in China -- the stability of people, intellectual property, uncertain cash flows. They are hard-working people but they don't have democracy. When they have a transition to democracy there are going to be huge challenges.

The global IT business sustained its momentum recording double-digit volume growth sequentially resulting in revenues (from the information technology business alone) for the quarter being 430.7 million dollars against our guidance of 422 million dollars.

We compete with global companies and are primarily in the services business, which is highly people dependent.

The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution.