All Jim Yong Kim Quotes
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If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least…
Able
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No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how…
All
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We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.
Challenge
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We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
Change
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Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
Both
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If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of…
Care
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Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws…
Bad
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One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
Allow
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Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies…
Able
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Hope is a moral choice.
Choice
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The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
Amygdala
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Many people could benefit from meditation.
Benefit
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In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
American
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The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
Carbon
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Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
Champion
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What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea…
Access
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What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain…
Affected
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