42 Quotes by Elizabeth Holmes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.'

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