Elizabeth Holmes
The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.Collection: Health
The worst possible thing in the world is to have someone who doesn't believe in you.
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.'
What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.
What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much.
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.
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.
Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.
Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.
I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.
We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.
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.
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
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.
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.
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.
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.
Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry.
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?
I love adventures.
I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.
We've created these little tiny tubes, which we call the 'nanotainers,' which are designed to replace the big, traditional tubes that come from your arm, and instead allow for all the testing to be done from a tiny drop from a finger.
I grew up in a family of people who wanted to make a difference in the world.
I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Technology
What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.Collection: Want
When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.Collection: Love You
I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things.Collection: Thinking
I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.Collection: Purpose
I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.Collection: Believe
Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Real
My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Dog
Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.Collection: Technology
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.Collection: Type 2 Diabetes