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" 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 to think about his legacy but also about this company's legacy. "

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" 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

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" I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences. "

" If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful. "

" I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance. "

" We're an American company; we're proud of being an American company. "

" We value R&D as a company. It's who we are. "

" In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way. "

" I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought. "

" My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life. "

" The way we have looked at pricing at Merck is we've always said we want to be responsible, which means we want to optimize profitability and patient access. "

" I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children but, more importantly, believed that anything was possible for their children and, in some ways, almost brainwashed us to be successful. "

" America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal. "

" I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine. "

" 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 research. What I fear is the government using its considerable clout to say, 'Here's the price we're setting for your medicines.' "

" I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value. "

" While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society. "

" I don't believe it's appropriate for me or any other CEO to wade into every political dispute. That's not what we're here for. "

" Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent. "

" My legacy is that Merck continues to do what Merck has always done, which is to make singular impact on human health and animal health around the world. It's that simple. "

" My father, to me, was 10 feet tall. "

Kenneth Frazier

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" The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution. "

" You either innovate or you become defunct. "

" I fell in love with the science at Merck. "

" Affordability is critical so that patients have access to medicines. At the same time, it's also important that we have the kind of incentives that allow us to do the kinds of studies that we need to do to go after these diseases like Alzheimer's. "