Narayana Murthy keen to take up professorship

N R Narayana Murthy, who stepped down as Executive Chairman of Infosys last month, is keen to take up a professorship so that he could be with younger people.

"A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people. Secondly, I come from a family of professors. I am the only black sheep of the family, so I think I will become a little bit more respectable if I become a professor."

"I call myself a compassionate capitalist -- I'm a capitalist in mind but a socialist at heart. For me entrepreneurship is the only instrument for countries like India to solve the problem of its poverty, creating more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income."

"In Infosys a few of us have made lots of money, but there is still another section that has not. I believe it is our responsibility to ensure that those who have not made that kind of money have an opportunity to do so."

"As far as employees are concerned, we will create a fair, open environment where everything is discussed, deliberated and agreed upon and we will use data to come to conclusions. Because once you use data to come to conclusions people feel confident, people feel there is fairness in this organisation, people feel there is meritocracy, people feel there is no groupism."

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