Elizabeth Holmes Quotes

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— 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

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

“I love adventures.”

— Elizabeth Holmes

“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.”

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

“I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things,”

— Elizabeth Holmes

“When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.”

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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.

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

— Elizabeth Holmes

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.

— Elizabeth Holmes