Yusuf Hamied quotes

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
-- Yusuf Hamied

#Cancer #Moving #Drug

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
-- Yusuf Hamied

#Suffering #Principles #Fundamentals

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
-- Yusuf Hamied

#Believe #Drug #Essentials

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
-- Yusuf Hamied

#Disease #Today #Illness

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
-- Yusuf Hamied

#People #Drug #Patents

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
-- Yusuf Hamied

#Chinese #Raw Materials #World

Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
-- Yusuf Hamied

#Strong #Brother #Team

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.