Melinda Gates quotes

Melinda Gates is an American philanthropist, businesswoman, and former general manager at Microsoft. Her work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has had a significant global impact on health, education, and gender equality. She is recognized for her leadership in empowering women and advancing social change. Here are 60 of her quotes:

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. (Melinda Gates)

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

Melinda Gates

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

Melinda Gates

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

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I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

Melinda Gates

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

Melinda Gates

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. (Melinda Gates)

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Melinda Gates

The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.

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Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Melinda Gates

Some of these big firms often believe in the white guy in a hoodie disrupting a whole industry. So we're going to disrupt it by making sure we're indexing for women and minorities because they've got great ideas.

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But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Melinda Gates

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

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All lives have an equal value.

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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Melinda Gates

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. (Melinda Gates)

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

Melinda Gates

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

Melinda Gates

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

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Melinda Gates

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Photo: World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0

Occupation: American Philanthropist
Born: August 15, 1964
Quotes count: 60

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