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141 " This meant that Elizabeth, who owned slightly more than half of the company, now had a net worth of almost $5 billion. "
― John Carreyrou , Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
142 " Another was from Theodore Roosevelt: “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. "
143 " In the same story, her old Stanford professor, Channing Robertson, dismissed questions about the accuracy of Theranos’s testing as absurd, saying the company would have to be “certifiable” to go to market with a product that people’s lives depended on knowing that it was unreliable. He also maintained that Holmes was a once-in-a-generation genius, comparing her to Newton, "
144 " She had long cultivated a relationship with the Clintons, appearing at several Clinton Foundation events and forging a friendship with their daughter. "
145 " I don’t have a cent and I don’t need to be here either! "
146 " With the election eight months away and Clinton considered the front-runner, it was a reminder of how politically connected Holmes was. Enough to make her regulatory problems go away? Anything seemed possible. "
147 " I have news for you, sir: in 1863, President Lincoln freed the slaves. "
148 " I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. "
149 " from Michael Jordan: “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again "
150 " Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos’s twenty-two-year-old founder, "
151 " Elizabeth incorporated the company as Real-Time Cures, which an unfortunate typo turned into “Real-Time Curses” on early employees’ paychecks. "
152 " In other words, it meant using the machine in a way that neither the manufacturer nor its regulator approved of. To get the final patient result, one had to multiply the diluted result by the same factor the blood had been diluted by, not knowing whether the diluted result was even reliable. "
153 " months and barred from doing business in Syria and Saudi "
154 " Elizabeth was offering the firm valued the company at $6 billion. "
155 " Everywhere you look with this young lady, there’s a purity of motivation,” Shultz told him. “I mean she really is trying to make the world better, and this is her way of doing it.” Mattis went out of his way to praise her integrity. “She has probably one of the most mature and well-honed sense of ethics—personal ethics, managerial ethics, business ethics, medical ethics that I’ve ever heard articulated,” the retired general gushed. "
156 " Other big-name investors he didn’t know about ranged from Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim "
157 " through the cartridge and settling into the little wells was real. "
158 " The trial is scheduled to start on July 28, 2020, "