231 Quotes by Melinda Gates

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

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development