Melinda Gates Quotes

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
Melinda Gates

Child, Causes, Leading

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
Melinda Gates

Good, Dating, After

All lives have an equal value.
Melinda Gates

Lives, Value, Equal

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
Melinda Gates

Move, Along, Taking

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
Melinda Gates

Government, Making, Lives

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.
Melinda Gates

Children, Made, Child

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
Melinda Gates

Care, Lives, Mothers

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
Melinda Gates

Different, Learn

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
Melinda Gates

Good, Goal, College

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 they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
Melinda Gates

Important, Nothing, Kids

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
Melinda Gates

School, Children, Bored

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
Melinda Gates

Life, Live, Children

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'
Melinda Gates

Saying, Born, Lucky

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.
Melinda Gates

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.
Melinda Gates

Life, Successful, Help

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.
Melinda Gates

Time, Women, Men

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
Melinda Gates

School, Through, Wrong

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
Melinda Gates

Makes, Microsoft, Macintosh

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.
Melinda Gates

Education, Business, Science

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
Melinda Gates

Life, Next, Foundation

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.
Melinda Gates

Happen, Trying, Enough

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
Melinda Gates

Love, Women, True

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
Melinda Gates

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
Melinda Gates

Place, Started, Mostly

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
Melinda Gates

Home, Together, Talk

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Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: August 15, 1964

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