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… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.' — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.' — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
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… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
