Kiran Quotes

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

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.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

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.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

A journey once begun, has no end

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey.

Today anything can be done - we have the techniques

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

I have never let gender get in my way.

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.

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.

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.

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

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.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

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.

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.

Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

I didn't get rattled by the criticisms. It is like delivering a baby. Some might say it has a flat nose or big eyes. But you cannot do anything about it and must learn to live with it.

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

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.

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

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.

A person may know things by somebody else's experience but a person will always learn things by his own personal experience.