Patrick Soon Shiong Quotes

101 Patrick Soon Shiong Quotes

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I woke up one day, the stock went through the roof, and the market valuation of the company I think hit four billion dollars. And I said ‘Oh my God.’ I could take one billion of that, set it aside and make this vision come true.
Patrick Soon Shiong

I have this secret desire to go back and do surgery.
Patrick Soon Shiong

I’m so disappointed by what people call healthcare reform. [On wanting it to be equal access to all.] There’s all kinds of agendas… I’m trying, I really am trying.
Patrick Soon Shiong

We need to change how the provider provides care…
Patrick Soon Shiong

It could be so much easier just to go and play golf, (which I don’t) or play basketball everyday which I could… I love playing basketball. But it’s almost like now it’s even worse, because I feel almost like there’s a responsibility now. I’m so blessed, because this country has given me so much and there’s a sense of purpose. Everybody has a sense of purpose. So I feel very much a moral obligation, a personal obligation to do what I do.
Patrick Soon Shiong

The beginning of a long journey, you just have to have internal belief that we grow on the shoulders of others as we build this thing together because there’s a lot of work to do.
Patrick Soon Shiong

I think a lot of doctors deserve to be on the [Forbes] 400 but they don’t have the opportunity to take their entrepreneurial spirit and actually get the proper funding from what I call the ‘value of death.’
Patrick Soon Shiong

[On decision to carefully tag the source of it’s raw material (300,000 pigs) for Heparin rather than just using any available supply.] It was a moral and ethical obligation to do that… If we had not made that decision in 2005 in 2007 this country would not have had a safe supplier of Heparin.
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That’s how it made billions. Because we pursued the right thing for the right reason for the patients sake.
Patrick Soon Shiong

So rather than starve the tumor, what if we fed the tumor what it actually is using from your human body to feed and grow but feed it with an anabolic drug and create a Trojan horse and kill it?
Patrick Soon Shiong



[In 2012] We’re gaining more knowledge now in the last five years than in the last fifty years in medicine… That knowledge transferred into patients takes an average of seventeen years.
Patrick Soon Shiong

The only way a doctors get reimbursed is to treat you when you’re sick. There’s no reimbursement to the doctor if I keep you out of the hospital, keep you at home, keep you healthy. There’s no healthy code.
Patrick Soon Shiong

[On discussions about the LA Dodgers.] My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that’s what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
Patrick Soon Shiong

[On the $100 million guaranty donation to MLK hospital] To me it’s a privilege and a blessing to be able to do this.
Patrick Soon Shiong

Most Americans are really happy because they have a sense of purpose.
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[With this wife Michele Chan] Our passion, our mission is to transform health and health care, in America and beyond.
Patrick Soon Shiong

[With this wife Michele Chan] Growing up in South Africa during the time of apartheid, we had direct experience of inequality, including great disparities in health and access to good care. After thirty years living in the United States, we see similar disparities in health care on our doorstep in Los Angeles, and across the nation. What was unconscionable to us in South Africa in the twentieth century is just as unconscionable in the United States in the twenty-first.
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[With this wife Michele Chan] Through our family foundation, we will work to erode and eliminate disparities in health care, and to help bring about a system of health care which aims first to keep people healthy, and secondly to ensure that everyone has access to the best quality health care when they need it.
Patrick Soon Shiong

As a scientist your aspiration is to make discoveries, and as a physician your aspiration is to figure out how to cure people.
Patrick Soon Shiong

One of the most precious gifts that we can give to each other is time. And the quality of time.
Patrick Soon Shiong



There can be really no more noble sense of purpose than compassion and care for others.
Patrick Soon Shiong



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