Bill Gates Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

  Bill Gates

  Country, World, Poor

  "Against Excellence" by Jack Stilgoe, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2014.

• If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

  Bill Gates

  Country, People, Brain

• Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Dream, Country

• If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Peace, Children

• In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

  Bill Gates

  Country, Government, Vaccines

• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

• I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Country

• In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Income, Disease

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

• The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Believe, Fighting

  "Why the Global Fund Is a Terrific Investment" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

• Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Zero, Average

  "Innovating to zero!". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

• Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Rich Countries, Rich

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

• Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Growing Up, Talking

• Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Korea, Generations

• We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Hard Times, Rich Countries

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Past

  Source: www.geekwire.com

• Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Country, Poor

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

• I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, War

  "Bill Gates Reveals Family Goes to Catholic Church: 'It Makes Sense to Believe in God'" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. March 14, 2014.

• The UK is a very international country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, International

  Source: thesource.com

• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Epidemics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth.
  I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Believe, Kids

• When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Self Confidence, Skills

  "Africa Can Live Up to its Promise" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

• Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Weather, Steps

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• I think Ebola is a great example of where the world really needs to come together. The three countries where this outbreak took place have had a lot of civil war, very weak health systems. And so, it did take a while for people to understand ....that eventually what we saw was a very unique Ebola epidemic. I think it is quite impressive what's being pulled together, and I think we will be able to get this under control.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Unique

  Source: www.politico.com

• I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Years, Progress

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

• We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Zero, Years

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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