Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Differences #Innovation #Making A Difference
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 Mazumdar-Shaw

#Hate #Entrepreneur #India
I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Believe #Able #Faces
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.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Views #Boards #Honest
The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Males #Brewing
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

#Numbers #People #Boss
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

#Legacy #Care #Affordable
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.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Team #People #Challenges
Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Strong #Balance #Needs
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

#Cancer #My Best Friend #Cost
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.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Father #Careers #Way
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

#Scientist #Vocation #Company
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.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Growing Up #Successful #Years
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

#Taken #Journey #Years
Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody have put India on the global firmament.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#India #Firmament #Business Woman
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.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Entrepreneur #India #Encounters
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

#Risk #Innovation #India
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

#Country #Caring #India
An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Journey #Entrepreneur #Life Is
Today anything can be done - we have the techniques
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Technique #Done #Today
My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Passion #Innovation #Platforms
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

#Heart #Beer #Technology

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