Development Quote by Melinda Gates Download Open image “When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development” — Melinda Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Development Feminism Global Development Inspirational Invest Powerful Invest Women Investing Powerful Source Source Global Women Invest
If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN! — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
I think countries are now, leaders are now more conscious of the importance of having women engage in their country's development plan. Because again,… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging… — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women. — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
The research indicates that when we women invest, we women do tend to be more patient, take a longer-term perspective and as a result… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't… — Eddie Bravo Copy Share Image
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
