I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
MELINDA GATESHelping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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.
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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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