Judy Faulkner Quotes

“What you put up with is what you stand for.”

“If you want to be a strong leader or a manager you can't always want to be liked.”

“You need to realize what you have to do and do it.”

“You need to be willing to try things and take risks.”

“I decided to try talking about it.”

“It taught me that some of the basics that we expect everyone to learn from their parents might not have been taught.”

“I told Saul I would handle it.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

“I was young, I didn't know it was hard. So I said sure, and I figured it out.”

“Within ambulatory, if you remember back, every specialty had their own EMR. We had at least 30-plus niche EMRs. Just think through this: that's 30-plus contracts, 30-plus maintenance agreements, 30-plus vendor representatives. Now we have one: Epic.”

“My goal in pledging 99 percent of my assets to philanthropy is to help others with roots—food, warmth, shelter, healthcare, education—so they, too, can have wings.”

“I never got an MBA, which I think is a really good thing. They would have taught me, 'Here's how you do venture capital.' We didn't do it. 'Here's how you go public.' We didn't do it. 'Here's how you do budgets.' We don't have budgets. We say, if you need it, buy it. If you don't need it, don't buy it.”

“Math is truth and computer science is what works. It's great to put them together because you need both.”

“If you are publicly traded, then your legal fiduciary duty is to increase shareholder value. We think our duty is to keep patients healthy, keep healthcare organisations strong, and keep clinicians happy.”

“Just because you get others' opinions doesn't mean it's a democracy. You gather all the information but in the end you're the leader and it's your decision.”