Azim Premji Quotes

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

Poverty affects people of all races.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.

A Dominican kitchen worker in New York City can make more money than a Dominican doctor working in the Dominican Republic. Why should anyone want to stay?

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.