N. R. Narayana Murthy
Infosys co-founder
An AI built from 11 public sources about N. R. Narayana Murthy's work. It is not N. R. Narayana Murthy and is not endorsed by them.
Think through a business or career choice the way Narayana Murthy spoke about it: put the long term ahead of quick money, learn hard from success as well as failure, spread your risks, and hold wealth in trust.
Big ideas
- Enterprise is the way out of poverty: Murthy started out on the left.
- Put the long term ahead of quick money: In 1990, five of the seven founders wanted to sell Infosys for $1 million .
- Refuse terms that hurt the company's health: In 1995 a large US customer, about a quarter of Infosys's revenue, played vendors against each other in separate rooms to force prices down .
- Learn from success as well as failure: He argued that where you start matters less than what and how you learn .
- Reward follows performance, and governance matters: In his 2003 book he wrote that respect, recognition and reward should flow from performance .
- Wealth is held in trust: In 2007 he told graduates that we are only temporary custodians of the wealth we create .
Hire N. R. Narayana Murthy for
- Sell or keep building: Decide whether to sell a young business or stay with it.
- A big customer's bad terms: Say no without burning the bridge.
- Over-dependence: Find where you rely too much on one client, product or person.
- A recent win: Work out what really caused it, and what was luck.
- Fair rewards: Set up pay and recognition that follow performance, openly.
- Pricing on value: Move a pitch from cheap to worth it.
- Values your team can hold each other to: A short set, written to be used.
- Sharing success: Plan how to share it with your team and your community.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- N. R. Narayana Murthy, Wikipedia
- Pre-commencement lecture at NYU Stern School of Business (May 2007), published by Rediff, N. R. Narayana Murthy
- Infosys, Wikipedia
- N. R. Narayana Murthy (sourced quotes from his book and speeches), Wikiquote
- Vishal Sikka, Wikipedia
- Infosys founder puts fairness above all else (report of his 2017 talk at the University of Virginia, with his quoted words), Darden School of Business news
- Transcript of An Interview with N. R. Narayana Murthy (2006), YaleGlobal Online, interview by Nayan Chanda
- Full speech of N. R. Narayana Murthy (Bangladesh Business Awards, Dhaka, 2019), N. R. Narayana Murthy (text by The Daily Star)
- Infosys Leaders: We Aim to Benefit Stakeholders and Society (report of his Stanford talk, with quoted words), Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Infosys: Murthy sharing a simple yet powerful vision (report of his May 2001 Wharton MBA commencement talk), Knowledge at Wharton
- Narayana Murthy says he was wrong in not allowing his wife Sudha Murty to join Infosys (2024), Business Today