We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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