Bill Gates Poor Quotations

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Fundamentally, world trade, if you block it, the big losers will be the poor people.

Melinda and I are thrilled to have someone with Dr. Yamada's breadth of experience leading the foundation's work on global health. He's organized the best talent around big challenges, knows what it takes to bring promising science from the lab to people in need, and understands how to engage new partners. We look forward to working with him to help close the gap in health between rich and poor countries.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

The time is really now to change these things. That's true from the point of view of the relationship between the rich world and the poor world, it's true from a security point of view, an economic point of view. ... We're hopeful that the U.S. and other governments will see this as a turning point,

There's really only one that they've done a leadership thing in, which is in search, and search today is very poor compared to what it will be even a year or two years from now -- their search, our search, everybody's search. So there's so much room to do better, to have that work well with the other offerings.

Health care doesn't rise up very high on the agenda on a lot of poor countries, ... I think there are some countries with AIDS epidemics that haven't stepped up to get the message out on the behavioral change, or stepped up to get infrastructure for treatment ?. And where you have a lack of priority and lack of funding, it just breaks down.