Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth. — 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
World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation. — Jim Yong Kim 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
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
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
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
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
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
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. — 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
If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im… — Jim Yong Kim Change the world 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
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
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
I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the… — 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 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
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
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 want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — 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
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 theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim Passion 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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