Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Anne Holmesis an American businesswoman, who is the CEO and founder of Theranos, a privately-held blood test company. In 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services barred her from owning or operating a diagnostic lab for two years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
Elizabeth Holmes quotes about
thinking asking-why people
I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things,
want life-is something-new
What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.
purpose might
I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that,
thinking succeed minutes
I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed,
technology ethnicity humanity
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.
certain create data engage experience mean people physicians positive release results tests thinks understand
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.
believe concept good heads needle qualify sat sticking sucking torture
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.
discover
Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
disaster places relief work
My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
drives health indicator people scale weight
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 definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.
diseases early life lose loved people role
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.'
anywhere cost era given locations move needles possible preventive toward
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.