Melinda Gates Quotes About Philanthropy

Quotes about: Philanthropy

• Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

  Melinda Gates

  People, Charity, Helping

• 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

  World, Philanthropy, Fingertips

  "Why Twitter, Why Now?" by Melinda Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2011.

• We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.

  Melinda Gates

  Life, Real, Believe

• Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

  Melinda Gates

  Believe, Government, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

  Melinda Gates

  Foundation, Charity, Next

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

  Melinda Gates

  Thinking, Risk, Backyards

• If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.

  Melinda Gates

  Book, Government, Risk

• It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Mom, Kids

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