Azim Premji Quotes

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Hold on. It’s not a fight. It’s a discussion.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

The belief in the therapeutic and redemptive force of dialogue depends on the assumption … that, after all, no idea is worth fighting over to the death and that we can always reach a position of accommodation if only we will sit down and talk it out

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible