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.

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.

An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey.

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.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.