N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

N. R. Narayana Murthy is one of the most respected business executives in India and has a lot of wisdom to share with the world. He is known for his innovative thinking and for being an advocate of creative capitalism. Here are some of the best quotes from N. R. Narayana Murthy that are sure to inspire and motivate you to achieve great things in life.

  • 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.

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  • Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

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  • Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • I am a man in a hurry.

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

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

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

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

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  • 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.

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  • Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

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  • 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.

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  • The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.

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  • If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

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  • It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.

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  • A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

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  • My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

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  • 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.

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  • I have always focused on the bottom line.

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  • 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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  • I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

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  • Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn’t reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.

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  • 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.

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

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  • I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

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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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  • Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

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  • 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.

    N. R. Narayana Murthy

  • I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.

    N. R. Narayana Murthy

  • 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

  • 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.

    N. R. Narayana Murthy

  • 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.

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  • A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

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  • 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.

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  • The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

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

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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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  • 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.

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  • Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

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  • I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

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  • Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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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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  • To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

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  • Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

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

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  • Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

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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.

    N. R. Narayana Murthy

  • 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.

    N. R. Narayana Murthy

  • Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

    N. R. Narayana Murthy

  • I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

    N. R. Narayana Murthy

  • I’ve always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

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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.

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  • Science is about unravelling nature.

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  • Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

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