66 Quotes by Kenneth Frazier

I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value.

Competition in our health system is a powerful force of cost-containment.

I think that size is not the key to innovation. Scale doesn't confirm an innovation advantage.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

We value R&D as a company. It's who we are.

My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.

My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.

I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children but, more importantly, believed that anything was possible for their children and, in some ways, almost brainwashed us to be successful.

I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.