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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
