Elizabeth Holmes Quotes

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

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.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that,

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.

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.

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

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed,

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.'

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

Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.

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

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

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.

Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.

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?

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

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

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

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