You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

Arunachalam Muruganantham

My plea is that don't wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl's life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I never thought someone would make a film on my story.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

The idea came from my wife, since in our village, women cannot afford to buy sanitary pads. When I asked my wife, she told me we would have to cut down half of our milk budget to buy sanitary pads. Moreover, while raw materials for sanitary pads cost 10 paise, the end product was sold for 40 times that price. So, I decided to create it on my own.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Every year, in our country, we churn out more job seekers rather than job creators. We have to look at new business models, identify a problem, and work on a solution for the same. Today, the machines I have created have provided employment to many women in the rural areas across the country. Why can't youngsters follow suit?

Arunachalam Muruganantham

There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?

Arunachalam Muruganantham

My life is a brave one. I didn't put any restrictions.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each, compared to those made by the MNCs that are priced anywhere above Rs 6 to Rs 100.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Arunachalam Muruganantham Quotes

You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

My plea is that don't wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl's life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.

Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.

There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.

When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.

My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

I never thought someone would make a film on my story.

Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?

There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?

My life is a brave one. I didn't put any restrictions.

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.

It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each, compared to those made by the MNCs that are priced anywhere above Rs 6 to Rs 100.

India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.