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. …

- Yusuf Hamied

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

- 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

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

- Yusuf Hamied

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

- 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.

- Yusuf Hamied

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

- Yusuf Hamied