Elizabeth Holmes

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. ”

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

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

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

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

I love adventures. ”

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

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. ”

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? ”