Yusuf Hamied

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

— Yusuf Hamied

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

— Yusuf Hamied

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

— Yusuf Hamied

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did…

— Yusuf Hamied

Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

— 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…

— Yusuf Hamied

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit…

— Yusuf Hamied

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

— Yusuf Hamied

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in…

— Yusuf Hamied

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help…

— Yusuf Hamied

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

— Yusuf Hamied

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

— Yusuf Hamied

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

— Yusuf Hamied

Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating…

— Yusuf Hamied

I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus…

— Yusuf Hamied

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

— Yusuf Hamied

Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never…

— Yusuf Hamied

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day,…

— Yusuf Hamied

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

— Yusuf Hamied