Elizabeth Holmes Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. I don't want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.

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

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

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

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#7. 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.

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. 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.'

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#13. 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.

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

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

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#16. When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.

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

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#18. I love adventures.

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

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

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#21. What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

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

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

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

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#25. My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

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

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

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#28. 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.

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#29. I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things,

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