Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
MELINDA GATESI realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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