Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Success doesn't change you; fame does.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

Put the dwarf within you to sleep.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Not the 29th time!

We are never ever ever... getting back together.
We are never ever ever... getting back together.
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me.
But we are never ever ever ever... getting back together.
Like, ever.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

I'm not a political singer. I don't know what the word means. People think I consciously decided to tell the world what was happening in South Africa. No! I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us — especially the things that hurt us.

I’ve been through hell and back, and I’m grateful for every scar, I look at the woman I was in my 20s and I see a young lady growing into confidence but intent on pleasing everyone around her. I now feel so much more beautiful, so much sexier, so much more interesting. And so much more powerful.

My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?

I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.