While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
I'm the last senior executive who was hired by Roy Vagelos. It's an honor, but it also imposes upon me an obligation not only… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share
I do worry that as we try to fix this long-term debt and deficit situation that we don't destroy the market incentives for biomedical… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
In a successful health system, the proportion of per-capita health dollars used for home care, outpatient primary care, and preventive services should actually increase,… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children but, more importantly, believed that anything was possible for their… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
Competition in our health system is a powerful force of cost-containment. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
