After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
MELINDA GATESMy 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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