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.
MELINDA GATESNow, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody 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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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