A child born todAy is hAlf As likely to die before the Age of five, compAred to if she wAs born in 2000, the humAn And economic benefits of this Are enormous. — Melinda Gates

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

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

I can go to a specIfIc regIon and a specIfIc state … In mexIco and I can look and see exactly how we are doIng on maternal health, chIld health and neonatal deaths, that tells me as a government how to act. — Melinda Gates

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

Many european donors are now prioritizing nutrition, which we believe will be one of the fundamental solutions to help cut child mortality in half by 2030. — Melinda Gates

Malnutrition is the underlying cause of nearly half of all under–5 child deaths, yet for too long the world has underinvested in nutrition. today we see an opportunity to change that. — Melinda Gates

You can’t save kids just with vaccines. — Melinda Gates

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. — Melinda Gates

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work. — Melinda Gates

Computers are great because when you’re working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It’s feedback you don’t get from many other things. — Bill Gates

Bill and i are equal partners, men and women should be equal at work. — Melinda Gates

Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy. — Melinda Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. — Bill Gates

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you’re investing in everyone else. — Melinda French Gates

Opportunities have to be equal before you can know if abilities are equal. And opportunities for women have never been equal. — Melinda French Gates

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. — Melinda Gates

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

Sometimes all that’s needed to lift women up is to stop pulling them down. — Melinda French Gates

Contraceptives are the greatest life–saving, poverty–ending, women–empowering innovation ever created. — Melinda French Gates

It’s the mark of a backward society–or a society moving backward–when decisions are made for women by men. — Melinda French Gates

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not… — Bill Gates

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. — Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. — Bill Gates

We also looked at gender parity in terms of pay, but then We looked at everybody’s pay, there was a discrepancy, but i expected bigger discrepancies. so We fixed those really quick. — Melinda Gates

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

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

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates

I’m wholehearted about whatever I do. — Melinda Gates

We started this mostly from an intellectual place. — Melinda Gates

When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It’s life. — Bill Gates

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

Life is not fair; get used to it. — Bill Gates

Saving lives starts with bringing everyone in. — Melinda French Gates

I didn’t say this. — Bill Gates

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

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. — Bill Gates

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

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