Bill Gates Quotes

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Poverty
  • Scary
  • India

• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
  • Bullish

• A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Parents

• Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Want
  • Goals
  • Go

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

  Hannah More
  • Poverty
  • Youth
  • Luxury

• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • Real
  • Truth

• In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Life
  • Man
  • Poverty

• Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Poverty
  • Hunger

• Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Process

• It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Work
  • Important
  • Goals

• Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• …in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Poverty

• Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy

• I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Success
  • Health
  • Goals

• For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

  

  C. Wagner
  • Power
  • Reason
  • Positive

• Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Education
  • College

• I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Good

• I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.

  

  K. Flay
  • School
  • Think
  • Know

• There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Art
  • Book
  • History

• Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Poverty
  • Goals
  • Stakeholders