Kofi Annan Quotes

I want to work for the poor in my country.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

The importance of this success of Wipro has become manifold more, because it's the success of Wipro that enables the possibility of making a difference to some of the most disadvantaged people in the world.

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

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that's revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

Even if the person doesn't know what the internet can do, we can bring it to them and show how it can make a difference in their lives.

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.