World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. — Jim Yong Kim Champion Copy Share Image
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim Passion Copy Share Image
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even… — Jim Yong Kim Growth Copy Share Image
We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist. — Jim Yong Kim Business Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for… — Jim Yong Kim Ability Copy Share Image
Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you… — Jim Yong Kim Access Copy Share Image
A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them. — Jim Yong Kim Challenges Copy Share Image
The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. — Jim Yong Kim Analysis Copy Share Image
Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians. — Jim Yong Kim Benefit Copy Share Image
Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes… — Jim Yong Kim Care Copy Share Image
What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the… — Jim Yong Kim Depression Copy Share Image
Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an… — Jim Yong Kim Country Copy Share Image
What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their… — Jim Yong Kim Advice Copy Share Image
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
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