Anne Wojcicki quotes

Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
- Anne Wojcicki

As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care.
- Anne Wojcicki

Wall Street was sort of at the height of the fame, everyone thought it was really cool, and I think taking that job, doing something probably more for the money was probably the worst thing I think I've ever done.
- Anne Wojcicki

I do believe at some point in time everyone will be genotyped at birth.
- Anne Wojcicki

The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
- Anne Wojcicki

I think that Google has definitely influenced my moral values and the ethics. I think when Larry Page started the company, they weren't in it for the money. They started it because they really wanted to create something that; one, they wanted, and two, they thought was going to change the world.
- Anne Wojcicki

We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not.
- Anne Wojcicki

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.
- Anne Wojcicki

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
- Anne Wojcicki

All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
- Anne Wojcicki

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say "Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%".
- Anne Wojcicki

Data helps solve problems.
- Anne Wojcicki

Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.
- Anne Wojcicki

Think big. Have the big idea met with doing all the small things that lead toward the realization of that big idea. Do not be afraid to think bigger as long as you understand that these big idea will require all the bricks in the road to be put down one by one.
- Anne Wojcicki

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
- Anne Wojcicki

My divorce wasn’t fun.
- Anne Wojcicki

I first heard about "genes" when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, "It's in your genes".
- Anne Wojcicki

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.
- Anne Wojcicki

My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.
- Anne Wojcicki