Bill Gates Quotes

Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

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

The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

In the developing countries the United Nations doesn't mean frustration, confrontation or condemnation. It means environmental sanitation, agricultural production, telecommunications, the fight against illiteracy, the great struggle against poverty ignorance and disease.

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

He is a champion around the world. He’s done more for the world than any individual person in relation to poverty, in relation to nutrition, in relation to health. It’s incredible that they’re being attacked, but I know the [Clinton] Foundation, I know how great it is

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease, and devastation. Add to that another two billion people who are just plain poor. If you look into the world of those caught in economic oppression, illiteracy, disease, and sexism, then you'll understand more clearly what we have to do.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.