Melinda Gates Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.”

“There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.”

“Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.”

“I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.”

“We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.”

“You can't save kids just with vaccines.”

“We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.”

“I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.”