Yusuf Hamied Quotes

#1. Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.

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#2. I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

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#3. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

#4. Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

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#5. Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

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#6. Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.

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#7. Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#8. So yes, I knew how to dance. I just wasn't able to look at the person I was dancing with. A sort of glass cage fell over me, in the form of a distant, distracted smile.

Katie Crouch

#9. Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants?" (Ash)
"Hell no," Corey said. "I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

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#11. I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

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#12. If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

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#13. I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.

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#14. I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't!

JR

#15. Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

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#16. The only thing you need to
do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do
know the answer

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.

Debora Spar

#18. Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.

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#19. India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

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#20. Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.

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#21. Don't be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#22. AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

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#23. Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures." As

Lisa Kleypas

#24. If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

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#25. Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

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#26. Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher

Niki Lauda

#27. Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

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#28. You can go to hell!"
"Just because I'm going to hell doesn't mean you'll ever deserve her.

Tahereh Mafi

#29. As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

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#30. Arrogance can be deadly." The corners of his mouth crept up. "But you didn't hear me say that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#31. We are all the students of life, nobody is perfect except our creator.

Euginia Herlihy

#32. My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

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#33. The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

Evelyn Glennie