Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Advice to Students from 'Infosys' Narayana Murthy

To those who become politicians:

Have integrity of Thought.

To those who become bureaucrats:

This is the time when your contribution is most needed, to reduce friction to business, to enhance quality of governance and to ensure that all programs that are aimed at making life better for the poor are implemented with efficiency on time and within the budgeted cost.

To those going abroad:

I am one of those who believe that a certain per cent of Indians have to go to new lands… Conduct yourselves as model citizens of those societies… and never do anything to damage the reputation of the country.

General:

Redeem on the pledge and sacrifices the founding fathers of this country took. … Hope is resting on your performance. Make this a country that you and the whole world can be proud of.

Excerpted from “Resurgent India is the responsibility of this generation: Narayana Murthy” by Sarah Hiddleston, ‘Education Plus’, The Hindu, Dec.24, 2007

(Speech delivered by Mr.Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor and Chairman, Infosys Technologies, to management students from across the country gathered in Chennai for L'attitude, an annual management festival organized by Great Lakes Institute of Management - In my opinion, the advice holds good to all students).

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