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.

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.

Time is the wealth through which money comes.

Don’t try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.

Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don't but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do..

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

Swifter, higher, stronger.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.