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N. R. Narayana Murthy [0-0] Indian

Rank: 101
Businessman, Industrialist

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, commonly referred to as Narayana Murthy, is an Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys, a multinational corporation providing business consulting, technology, engineering, and outsourcing services.

Business, Finance, Leadership, Technology, Courage, Education, Food, Good, Hope, Independence, Knowledge, Nature, Patriotism, Science, Strength, Time

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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.	Business, Good, Time	101
Science is about unravelling nature.	Nature, Science	102
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.	Leadership	103
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.	Education, Food	104
Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.		105
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.	Technology	106
A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.		107
I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.		108
We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.		109
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.	Business, Hope	110
Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.	Leadership	111
I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.	Knowledge	112
Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.		113
Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.		114
Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.		115
Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.	Finance	116
I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.		117
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.		118
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.	Finance	119
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.		120
The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.		121
To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.	Patriotism	122
Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.		123
The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.	Strength	124
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.		125
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.		126
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.	Technology	201
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.		202
Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.		203
Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.		204
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.		205
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.		206
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.		207
Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.		208
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.		209
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.		210
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.	Courage	211
Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.		212
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.		213
My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.		214
Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.		215
You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.		216
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.		217
Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.		218
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.		219
My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.		220
Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.		221
I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.		222
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.		223
I am a man in a hurry.		224
I have always focused on the bottom line.		225
I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.		226
I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.		301
A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.		302
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.		303
If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.		304
I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.		305
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.		306
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.		307
The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.		308
Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.		309
Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.		310
The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.		311
Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.		312
Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.		313
In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.		314
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.	Independence	315
I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.		316
It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.		317
Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.		318
India needs to sustain its high growth rate.		319

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