102 Quotes by James Wolfensohn

We have three billion people, half the world’s population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

If you’re changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it’s very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there’s no way that we’re going to have a peaceful world for our children.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don’t have a job, who’ve used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because I wanted something that unites us as an institution.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.