Yusuf Hamied famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
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.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
-- Yusuf Hamied
-
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
-
It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.
-
It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
-
You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
-
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
-
Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
-
Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
-
Tonight I'm the designated drinker.
-
Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
-
Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.
You may also like:
-
Azim Premji
Business person -
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Entrepreneur -
Sunil Bharti Mittal
Entrepreneur