Quotes from Elizabeth Holmes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The worst possible thing in the world is to have someone who doesn't believe in you.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.