And what has been your biggest achievement?
In some sense, articulating the need for respect and convincing my colleagues to accept it. . . and then we said we will accept deferred gratification. We started with only Rs 10,000 as equity. We took very low salaries, we spent less than what we earned, we paid dividend, we paid tax and put money back into the business. . . our lifestyles were very, very simple.
What has kept the core Infosys team together all these years?
Clearly, the value system. We have always put the interest of the company ahead of our personal interest.
Even today whenever there is a discussion, the moment a person is convinced that this decision is in the interest of the company and that there is no vested interest in the person that is propounding that idea, then everybody stands up and salutes and . . . we go ahead. . .
How do you resolve differences?
We use facts, we use data. That is why we say, 'In God we trust, everyone else brings data to the table.'
Image: Infosys founders (Left to right): Nandan Nilekani, S Gopalakrishnan, N R Narayana Murthy, K Dinesh, N S Raghavan and S D Shibulal. | Photograph, courtesy: Infosys Technologies
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