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

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.

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.

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?

There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying.

The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die.