Bill Gates Quotes

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

You're not going to solve the problems of poverty in the world with less energy.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

Our businesses also help promote socio-economic progress.

A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.

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

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.