Top 10 motivational & inspirational quotes by Azim Premji

Azim Hashim Premji is the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He is the founder of Wipro Ltd. In 1996, after completing his bachelor’s in engineering from Stanford University Azim returned to India & started handling his father’s business. His father Muhammad Hashim Premji was known as the ‘Rice king of Burma,’ he used to run a company that manufactures sunflower oil & soap. Azim focused on the expansion of his business & launched various products.

In 1980, he saw potential in the developing IT industry & started manufacturing minicomputers in partnership with an American firm. Now Wipro is one of the leading IT companies in the world. Let’s check some of the motivational & inspirational quotes by Azim Premji.

Top 10 quotes by Azim Premji:

1. “If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

2. “Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.”

3. “Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.”

4. “When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.”

5. “People are the key to success or extraordinary success.”

6. “As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.”

7. “Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.”

8. “You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.”

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

10. “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.”

These were the top 10 motivational & inspirational quotes by Azim Premji.