Get All Access for $5/mo

10 Quotes By Entrepreneur And Fiery Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy, the multimillionaire former biotech executive has been trending all over the internet as a result of his combative performance in the first GOP debate.

By Entrepreneur Staff

You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media.

Born in Ohio to immigrant parents in 1985, Ramaswamy is in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the multimillionaire former biotech executive has been trending all over the internet as a result of his combative performance in the first GOP debate. Born in Ohio to immigrant parents in 1985, Ramaswamy is in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Ramaswamy got a biology degree at Harvard University and then moved on to Yale Law School. In 2014 he founded Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company and resigned as CEO in 2021. Then, in February 2023 he declared his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 United States presidential election.

Roivant Sciences strategy was to get patents from bigger pharmaceutical companies for drugs that till then had not been successfully developed, after which they would bring them to the market.

Here some quotable quotes by him over the years on entrepreneurship, business and more:

1. The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

2. In contrast to how tech firms want to disrupt and break things - developing drugs must be incremental and step-by-step. This is the kind of work that involves people putting their lives on the line every day with clinical trials.

3. I would think the correlation between an era of increased globalization and an increased desire to participate in an entrepreneurial endeavor is not a coincidence. When interconnectedness is at a peak due to technological advances, the ability to spawn something new is slightly easier.

4. This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

5. I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It's a ticking time bomb - we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer's - which disproportionately affects women and minorities.

6. Our philosophy is to attract top talent and incentivise them to succeed. We have some of the top talent in the entire industry.

7. 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.

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

9. The more general skepticism about another millennial that likes to claim they're disrupting another industry - that doesn't serve me well.

10. It's a great disappointment as a leader in the biotech industry that with all the amazing things the drug industry has done in the last couple of decades, we have not made a single major advance, have not developed a single new chemical entity approved for the treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Entrepreneur Staff

Entrepreneur Staff

Editor

For more than 30 years, Entrepreneur has set the course for success for millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners. We'll teach you the secrets of the winners and give you exactly what you need to lay the groundwork for success.
Leadership

ITC's Marketing Wizard: Shuvadip Banerjee, Chief Digital Marketing Officer

The FMCG giant's successful campaign #MyFantasyAdWithSRK broke the Internet and in just a few weeks of launch had 10 lakh participants

News and Trends

Empowering MSMEs: Unlocking India's Trillion-Dollar Manufacturing Potential

By empowering MSMEs, India can realize its vision of a robust trillion-dollar manufacturing sector, fueling economic prosperity and sustainable development

Business News

Is One Company to Blame for Soaring Rental Prices in the U.S.?

The FBI recently raided a major corporate landlord while investigating a rent price-fixing scheme. Here's what we know.

News and Trends

Easing the stress with new-age health solutions

With rapid scaling and idea-making seen in the Indian eco-system, it is only speculated that the now-easily accessible healthcare systems will try to reach further depths of the country.

Side Hustle

This Former Starbucks Employee Started a Side Hustle That's Making More Than $70,000 a Month — and He's Not Done Yet

When Tom Saar moved to New York City, he spotted a lucrative business opportunity.

Business News

Microsoft Reportedly Lays Off Over 1,500 Employees in Cloud Sector as Partnership with OpenAI Strengthens

Alphabet also reportedly laid off employees from several teams in Google's cloud unit last week.