An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey.

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.

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.

Today anything can be done - we have the techniques

I have never let gender get in my way.

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. 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.

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 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.

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

The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?" "I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

Number one on my top five is Beyonce.

It is never wrong to fight for what is right, never!

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.