Away Quote by James Wolfensohn Download Open image “You can't wish away poverty overnight.” — James Wolfensohn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Away Overnight Poverty Wish You
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poverty is nothing but getting up every morning from dirt and going to bed every night with mud. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
First of all, the people left, and they're now coming back. What we have to do is try and help them regain their lives,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I saw it with my own eyes: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could get your… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
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