Top 37 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Quotes
#1. Always remember, when opportunity knocks, don't knock opportunity! Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Jack Canfield
#2. Syphilis. Lots and lots of magically delicious Syphilis.
Ilona Andrews
#3. You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#4. It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
Charles Dickens
#5. I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.
Angie Martinez
#6. As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#7. I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.
Michael Phelps
#8. We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.
Colson Whitehead
#9. My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#10. I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.
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#11. I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#13. If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I ... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#14. Pure Love is detached, self-assured, self-poised, non-possessive and non-aggressive in nature. Yet, it is tremendously powerful to move the whole universe.
Banani Ray
#15. What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#16. It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
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#17. I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.
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#18. I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.
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#19. I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#20. In every religion the priest insists on five things -
First: There is a God.
Second: He has made known his will.
Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#21. When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#22. I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#23. Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.
Arthur Lynch
#24. The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.
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#26. I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.
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#27. I hate the title of being called 'the richest woman in India,' but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.
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#29. As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.
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#30. My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
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#31. Most people lose the only thing they possess - Life - while acquiring the many things that will finally never be theirs.-RVM
R.v.m.
#33. I've had many failures in terms of technological ... business ... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
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#34. There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.
Warren Ellis
#35. Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
Henry Ward Beecher
#36. One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#37. My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.
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