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" We value R&D as a company. It's who we are. "
Kenneth Frazier
Company
Who
Value
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" While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society. "
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Business
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" I fell in love with the science at Merck. "
Kenneth Frazier
Science
Fell
Love
" I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance. "
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Key
Support
Tax
" We're an American company; we're proud of being an American company. "
Kenneth Frazier
American
Being
Company
" My father, to me, was 10 feet tall. "
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Tall
Feet
Me
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Company
Honor
Last
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Believe
CEO
Wade
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
World
Health
Legacy
" You either innovate or you become defunct. "
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You
Innovate
Either
" I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value. "
Kenneth Frazier
Creating
Value
Unique
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Business
Knowledge
Failure
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Time
Kind
Need
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
America
American
Honor
" 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.' "
Kenneth Frazier
Worry
Say
Research
" 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
Education
Child
Day
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Late
Born
Slavery
" Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent. "
Kenneth Frazier
Job
Jury
People
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Culture
Values
Successful
" I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought. "
Kenneth Frazier
School
Thought
Person
" I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences. "
Kenneth Frazier
Words
Think
Consequences
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Said
Want
Patient
" 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. "
Kenneth Frazier
Children
Possible
Successful
" I think that size is not the key to innovation. Scale doesn't confirm an innovation advantage. "
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Key
Think
Size
" 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
Hero
Power
Change