"Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro." — Azim Premji

Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.

What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.

This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.

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Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.