Kallam Anji Reddy Quotes

I really was inspired by the possibility of more directly being involved in the development of drugs myself.

I was criticized for saying that Pfizer doesn't know how to make a molecule right.

To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.

There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.

In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

I fell in love with the science at Merck.

I am very passionate about India's place in bio-pharmaceuticals, and that is what I really want to drive and create leadership for in India because I really think it is possible.

I go to class every day with the future Facebook and Twitter and Google employees, the future innovators and entrepreneurs who might have the next big thing. Knowing that and seeing their success and work ethic makes you want to be successful. It impresses me every day. It humbles me, too.

The problem we are trying to solve is that of drugs that would have never seen the light of day for reasons that have nothing to do with the inherent properties of drug candidates themselves and more to do with bureaucratic institutions within which they often sit.

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.