Azim Premji Quotes
The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
Premji, Azim. Interview by Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 31 Oct. 2006.
Between 1820 and 1867, the American Colonization Society would relocate 13,000 freed American blacks to Liberia. The present-day capital of Liberia, Monrovia, is named after Monroe.
This is the origin of the “melting pot” term. Although British, Zangwill wrote this play for America and it was first produced in Washinton DC with Theodore Roosevelt in attendance. The theme was just the concept that most Americans think of relative to the large immigration of so many peoples to America.
Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian business tycoon, investor, engineer, and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth, to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry. In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek. He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, once in 2004 and more recently in 2011. For years, he has been regularly listed one among the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world.
