Patrick Soon-Shiong

“I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.”

“We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.”

“There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.”

“The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.”

“I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.”

“It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.”

“We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.”

“The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.”

“We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.”

“I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.”