Patrick Soon Shiong Quotes

101 Patrick Soon Shiong Quotes (LA Lakers, American Pharma Partners (APP), Abraxis BioScience (ABII), Nantworks, Heathcare Transformation Institute, Patrick Soon-Shiong)

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I offered my drug discovery to a major pharma company, who thought I was crazy and told me to go away. That turned out to be great for me, because I built my own company to make the drug, and that became a multibillion-dollar enterprise.
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You do well by doing good.
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Disruptive innovation often comes from individuals working outside organizations.
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The only person that was left was to do it myself.
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The one thing I’ve come to realize, is a happy person here is a person with a sense of purpose.
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One of the most precious gifts that we can give to each other is time.
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I never consider life a risk because it’s just steps in a motion in which you always are curious, making more steps forward…
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[In October 2012] I think people are confused by what I do, because I do so much.
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I do wear a lot of hats…
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Cultural diversity helps…
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We need to encourage people to innovate.
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We need to nurture the culture of innovation.
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We live a pretty simple, quiet life.
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[In 2008] Our country needs a health care system designed to keep people healthy rather than waiting for them to get sick.
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[On philanthropy needing hands on involvement.] Writing a check can be the easy way, but not always the best way.
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Helping, doing the right thing for the patients will overcome any problem including racism.
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[On lifesaving pancreatic cancer research.] You know we just needed to do this because it was important research.
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[On feeding a tumor rather than starving it.] I am basically feeding it blood, but tricking it with ratpoison.
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We were in the ‘just do it’ mode.
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I think the complete well-being of the patient is so key.
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The attitude of positive thinking is so positive, it’s so important.
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It could be so much easier just to go and play golf… But… I feel almost like there’s a responsibility now.
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I feel very much a moral obligation, a personal obligation to do what I do.
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The beginning of a long journey…
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We grow on the shoulders of others as we build this thing together…
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The hope that we have is really through America’s ingenuity and innovation.
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I think we need to go back to our roots for innovation – manufacturing.
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[With this wife Michele Chan] America has been a land of opportunity for us, as it has for so many immigrants.
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[With this wife Michele Chan] 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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The science of healthcare is very complex.
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[On the biggest risk he’s taken] The biggest risk was when I left the university to build a nanoparticle that they said could never be done using human blood.
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[On his favorite compound] Barium… If you look at barium, it’s from the ocean.
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Whether it’s technically true, we all come out of the sea.
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[On the person he would most like to have a beer with.] I think I’d love to have a beer with Mandela.
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[On Los Angeles] I left South Africa, and Los Angeles is most like South Africa. It’s so diverse, and it brings literally the best of everything: the climate, the diversity, the energy, the creativity. We’ve been here since 1980, and I don’t think we ever will leave.
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[On his favorite restaurant in Los Angeles] We’ve now gotten addicted to Nobu, which is a Japanese restaurant in Malibu.
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[On the languages that he speaks.] English, Afrikaans, and a smattering of Chinese. That’s about it.
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[On his Basketball signature move.] I have a jump shot. And I have… a jump shot.
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We all come out of the sea.
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[In October 2012] I’m not doing a lot. I’m actually doing a very systematic, integrated approach to trying to solve big problems, and that gets very confusing to people.
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