Bill Gates Quotes

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.