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Quote by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“I have never let gender get in my way.”

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian-Australian entrepreneur born on March 23, 1953. She is a pioneer in the biotechnology industry, known for her role in founding and leading Biocon, an Indian biopharmaceutical company. more

“'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.”

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“What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.”

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“I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.”

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“My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.”

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“I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.”

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“I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.”

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“One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.”

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“I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'”

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