Melinda Gates Quotes - Page 2

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• Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing; it’s an iterative process.

  Melinda Gates

  Ideas, Design Process, People

  "The Human Element: Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer on Designing Global Health". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

  Melinda Gates

  Different, Way, Different Ways

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

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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.

  Melinda Gates

  Teacher, Students, Classroom

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• I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.

  Melinda Gates

  Giving, Empowering, Progress

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

  Melinda Gates

  World, Around The World, Poverty

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

  Melinda Gates

  Daughter, School, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• One life is worth no more or less than any other

  Melinda Gates

  Love, Life, Family

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• What great changes have not been ambitious?

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Ambition, Greatness

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

  Melinda Gates

  People, Charity, Helping

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• It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

  Melinda Gates

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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• But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

  Melinda Gates

  Kids, Iphone, Two

  "Report: Bill Gates Won't Let His Kids Have iPods", www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2009.

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• When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.

  Melinda Gates

  Pregnancy, Voice, Impact

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Believe, Bills

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• If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspiring, Girl, Investing

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• If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

  Melinda Gates

  Want, Economy, Lifts

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• You can't save kids just with vaccines.

  Melinda Gates

  Kids, Vaccines

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

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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.

  Melinda Gates

  Men, Earning, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

  Melinda Gates

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.

  Melinda Gates

  Differences, Water, Energy

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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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.

  Melinda Gates

  Views, People, Outsiders

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

  Melinda Gates

  Needs, Contraceptives

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspiring, Children, Vaccines

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• You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Vaccines, Ifs

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

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