black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Melinda Gates

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 GATES

Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATES

Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATES

Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
MELINDA GATES

Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATES

Care Live Mom Myself Save
My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
MELINDA GATES

Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
MELINDA GATES

Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Big Born Children Family Herself Live Pieces Planning Save Space Vaccine Woman Work
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.
MELINDA GATES

Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
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.
MELINDA GATES

Change Cultural Open People Point Social View Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES

Economy Start Woman Yourself
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
MELINDA GATES

Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
MELINDA GATES

Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATES

Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Melinda Gates Quotes