Elizabeth Holmes Quotes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

- Elizabeth Holmes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.

- Elizabeth Holmes

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

- Elizabeth Holmes

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

- Elizabeth Holmes

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?

- Elizabeth Holmes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

- Elizabeth Holmes

No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

- Elizabeth Holmes

We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.

- Elizabeth Holmes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes

I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.

- Elizabeth Holmes

It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.

- Elizabeth Holmes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes

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.

- Elizabeth Holmes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes

I love adventures.

- Elizabeth Holmes

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

- Elizabeth Holmes