Hans Rosling Quotes About Motivation

Quotes about: Motivation

• I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Travel, Motivation

• I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, World

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Motivation, War

• Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Energy

• If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

• If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

  "The magic washing machine". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.

• My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

• There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Two

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

• Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kids

  "The best stats you've ever seen". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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