Menu

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

I am what we call a ‘karma yogi’ in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

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.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

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.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

I have always focused on the bottom line.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

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

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

- 1
- 2