American - Businesswoman | August 15, 1964 -
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
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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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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
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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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But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.
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We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
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