To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.
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What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your favourite side project?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
You always have to believe in your principles and take the route that is fair, even if it is tougher.
Kripa Mahalingam, Secret diary of an entrepreneur, Outlook Business, 24 March 2018 source ↗
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To stay in the moment and live each day to the maximum. You never know when it’s going to be taken away.
Redemption. People can be redeemed, goals can be redeemed.
Hiroshi Mikitani
Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten
I REALIZED IN THOSE DAYS HOW TENUOUS OUR EXISTENCE IS,” HE WROTE IN HBR. “WE HAVE ONLY ONE LIFE, AND IT MUST BE LIVED TO THE FULLEST—NOT SOMEDAY, BUT NOW.
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View profile →But this is a herd-like mentality as they only back e-tailing and not life science ventures based on genomics et cetera.
I am very impatient, impulsive, proactive and often act in haste.
I still don't think I have achieved enough. I have much greater things to achieve.
My big idea is to marry affordability and access to ensure that we leverage innovation to develop affordable, cutting-edge therapies for chronic diseases.
As a businesswoman, I admire Indra Nooyi, because of the way she is transforming Pepsi into a 'healthy' fast food organisation
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Shweta Punj, Most Powerful Women in Business 2011, Business Today, 18 September 2011
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Apart from my business I engage in civic issues. I do a lot of work with the Government of Karnataka, both for the biotech sector as well as for the city of Bangalore.
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