Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
Melinda Ann Gates, DBE is an American businesswoman and philanthropist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth15 August 1964
CountryUnited States of America
Melinda Gates quotes about
world disability economic
We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.
helping kind all-kinds
Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
violent situation trusted
In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."
computer realizing computer-science
My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women.We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.
growing-up thinking back-to-work
[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.
world helping loan
If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.
world poverty
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
absolutely attracted careers switch trying
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.
home
We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
helping inspirational-women empowering-women
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
growing-up empathy parent
When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.
growing-up kids thinking
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.
equal values
All lives have an equal value.
numbers years dating
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.