"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."

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Source : "Women at Work: Biocon Founder on Philanthropy, Sexism and Politics". Interview with Atish Patel, blogs.wsj.com. June 18, 2013.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Numbers Quotes #People Quotes #Boss Quotes

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”
“It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.”
“My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.”
“Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.”
“That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.”
“Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2008.
“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Nov 08, 2016

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