Top 15 Elizabeth Holmes Quotes

I grew up in a family of people who wanted to make a difference in the world.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

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.

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

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.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

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.

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

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