Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

“I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure, and succeed after failing.”

“Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.”

“My big idea is to marry affordability and access to ensure that we leverage innovation to develop affordable, cutting-edge therapies for chronic diseases.”

“My life's work has been focused on building a new model of innovation that adds the condition of affordability to ensure accessibility.”

“I strongly believe that we can increase the number of women in leadership roles if we can plug their exit post-motherhood.”

“I have never let gender get in my way.”

“I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.”

“One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.”

“I like people to take on a lot of responsibilities because I think with a sense of responsibility also comes a sense of purpose.”

“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.”

“Kiran is impervious to any kind of deterrent.”

“I always tell people success is about going from failure to failure without giving up.”

“In school, I used to love Ayn Rand — these characters are doing such awesome things and they don't mind fighting the whole world! I used to love stories of creative excellence, people doing things that are exceptional. That's why I wanted to be a brewmaster.”

“Having grown up in a middle-class family in India, I was brought up by my parents to believe that wealth creation is about making a difference to society. As a first-generation entrepreneur, I built my company Biocon with these guiding principles.”

“Should a drug be described as a "blockbuster" by a billion-dollar label or a billion-patients label? I have always believed that blockbuster drugs are not about a billion dollars, but a billion patients.”

“I grew up being apologetic about India. I felt a strong urge in me to create something that would be a piece of the new India. I did not want the next generation to feel apologetic.”

“I often say, "Do you know that India's largest biopharmaceutical company was founded because of a gender bias?”

“I call myself an accidental entrepreneur — because it was an accidental encounter with another entrepreneur who wanted to set up shop in India and asked me whether I would be able to partner this venture.”