Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday! — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“It was my mother who regularly reminded me that I was merely a steward of any wealth I gained. With wealth came… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
![“This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a0/bill-gates-137_behinds_this-philanthropy-work-is-even-more-fasc_1416367.jpg)
![“here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24f/bill-gates-137_care_here-are-economies-like-china-s-economy_2293366.jpg)
![“In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/403/bill-gates-137_achieve_in-the-philanthropy-game-you-re-going-fo_2763330.jpg)
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