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Poor Quotes by Bill Gates
- The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
- We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
- Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't…
- The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I…
- If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.
- If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we…
- By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
- The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
- Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in…
- If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
- We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market…
- Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
- By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or…
- China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives…
- Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
- I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more…
- Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
- If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by…
- Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
- In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link…
More Poor Quotes
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality,… — Amy Adams
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac
- I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be… — Bob Barker