"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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Source : "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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“But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail.”
“How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?”
“She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.”
“Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.”
“I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go for a Cabernet or a Merlot. You're at the mercy of promoters who try to cut corners, so you don't always get the best wines in the world. But I look at the wine as being medicinal. It's not there to be enjoyed, it's part of my preparation for a show.”
“I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .”
“The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. And it is a short road to unselfishness, for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.”
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”

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