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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
14 quotes
“I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure, and succeed after failing”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement”
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“My big idea is to marry affordability and access to ensure that we leverage innovation to develop affordable, cutting-edge therapies for chronic diseases. I am on a mission to make a global impact by ensuring affordable access to healthcare”
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“My life’s work has been focused on building a new model of innovation that adds the condition of affordability to ensure accessibility. I have successfully challenged the Western world’s existing model of pharmaceutical innovation, which leads to the creation of monopolistic markets for novel, life-saving drugs that deliver high margins at low volumes”
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“I strongly believe that we can increase the number of women in leadership roles if we can plug their exit post-motherhood. In order to do this, we need to have a more enabling ecosystem that comprises the workplace, the home, and society at large. Good childcare infrastructure at the workplace and a strong family support system can help in a big way. As corporates, we can contribute by providing flexible human-resources policies that allow women to transition back to their jobs post-maternity in a smooth manner”
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“We are seeing heightened awareness and discussions in India around facilitating women at work and addressing the issue of gender diversity. Recently we have seen the passage of the maternity bill in India, which has extended the maternity-leave period for women to 26 weeks. More recently, the Indian parliament is debating a proposal of awarding two days of paid menstrual leave every month to women at work in public and private sectors”
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“I was totally unprepared for the gender bias that a young woman had to face for daring to start a business in the male-dominated society of India of the 1970s. But, actually, my experience did not make me change my belief that knowledge doesn’t discriminate on the basis of gender, and a woman can achieve anything if she puts her mind to it”
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“I have always believed that successful businesses thrive on great human relationships, which are formed through collaborations and extend out into personal and professional networks. Very often, strong personal networks lead to robust professional relationships”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 1953) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The pioneer of India’s biotech industry was denied her first job for being a woman,21 July 2022
“I call myself an accidental entrepreneur”
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“Even in the U.S. now, the adoption of biosimilars is becoming far greater because health care costs are spiraling out of control, and anything you can do to rein in costs is going to be very important”
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“We have a huge opportunity to build a very large business”
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“Just because we cannot afford human insulin, we are having to use animal insulin, so let me do something about it”
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“That is what then gave me the raison d’être to focus on biopharmaceuticals”
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“I believe we are in a humanitarian business, she says, and I think we are doing our bit for affordable access, which is what we want”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 1953) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet India’s Self-Made Biologics Brewmaster Billionaire,26 May 2025,retrived 27 May 2025