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 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 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.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Right person suffers a lot than wrong person in that place where injustice is called justice.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

I think at you have to do what your conscience tells you to do.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Love lift us up where we belong.

There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

I could eat gazpacho three times a day.