Great Lakes Institute of Management Presents

LESSONS FROM LEGENDS- Powerful quotes from visionaries

- Azim Premji

“These are invaluable quotes taken from the excerpts of speeches made by various guests in

Great Lakes Institute of Management.”

These excerpts were taken from Azim Premji talk at Great lakes Institute of Management .

LESSONS FROM LEGENDS

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Paying the price is important not from the point of just justice, paying the price is important from the point of you making examples. And those examples are very important in any country for the process of nation building, very important from the point of character building, and very important from the point of view of emphasizing a certain extremely high standard of values whether it be political life, whether it be administrative life or whether it be in business life. - Importance of justice

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I want to emphasize so far as you as leaders are concerned getting into business, you have to be different, you have to be standing by certain principles, you have to be standing by certain values and you have to be standing by making a sacrifice for those principles and the sacrifice for those values.- Business Principle

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And I would also like to emphasize that the phenomenon is just not limited to Indian companies because we always tend to put Indian companies in a second bracket to multinational companies. The phenomenon of compromise of ethics is just as much present in international companies as it is in Indian companies.- Ethics all over the world

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You build a different kind of an organization, you build a different kind of a team, you build a different kind of

a self-respect in you, you build a different kind of a muscle tone in the

team and the gains which you get from it are significantly more than the

price you pay for it. - Gain of being consistent

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Education has a value, education has a value because it trains you to be able to do something. It trains you to question. It trains you to be able to analyse. It trains you particularly in terms of the education which you have gone through to be leaders, to be able to work with teams, to be able to work with teams across various functions which you deal with and it trains you also in terms of a certain amount of self-confidence - Value of Education

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Value of that self-confidence you got to carry out into your roles in terms of standing firm and being

examples. I really ask you to really stand out on this because, if you

really a stand out on this, you can make a difference.

- Impact of self-confidence

You must also realize that even if the system is corrupt, moderately corrupt, incredibly corrupt or terribly corrupt, the system has exceptions. Our government, our colleagues, our bureaucrats, our environment has many exceptions of the highest integrity. And those exceptions of the highest integrity really got to be built on, leveraged and argued with and supported. - Support the exceptions from corruptions

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The unfortunate problem with our newspapers is they only carry what is headline news and just

repeating that headline news. And then they transit from the headline news to the next headline news.

Unlike I’m not a great admirer of America necessarily but unlike American newspapers when they find an issue which is of public concern, they

go cradle to grave on it and really bring it to a conclusion via punishment to people who are

responsible for it, so that examples are set. - View on Print Media

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