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" It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Bringing
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" When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon. "
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Hope
" Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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" When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company. "
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" If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc. "
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" It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Poor
Living
" The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Education
Two
Focus
" Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Equal
More
Opportunity
" Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Most
Business
Persons
" When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society. "
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Rich
People
Off
" India needs to sustain its high growth rate. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
High
Growth
Needs
" The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Challenge
Lack
Strength
" India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Society
Time
Responsibility
" The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Democracy
Power
Principle
" I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Country
Think
You
" It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
You
Early
Up
" I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Work
Competition
People
" Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
You
Powerful
Advice
" The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Any
Value
Good
" I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Always
Way
Mathematics
" Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Support
Best
Healthcare
" Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Technology
Science
Power
" We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Live
Same
World
" Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Very
Important
Healthcare
" My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Up
Extraordinary
Personal
" I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this. "
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Limit
Say
Small
" Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni. "
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Institution
Than
Alumni
" I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Doing
India
Fact
" Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Corporation
Good
Growth
" I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Think
Day
End
" I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Policy
Believe
Politics