Elizabeth Holmes Quotes & Sayings

“I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.”

“What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.”

“Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.”

“I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.”

“Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.”

“The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.”

“Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry.”

“Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.”

“With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.”

“Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine?”