19 Quotes by Yusuf Hamied

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

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

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

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.

As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

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