Melinda Gates
Philanthropist
1964-08-15
Books by Melinda Gates
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Quotes by Melinda Gates
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
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There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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