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 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 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 level of success you will experience can be predicted by looking closely at the sacrifices you are willing to make.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?