Bill Gates Quotes

The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

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

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

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

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.

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

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.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

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

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.

Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.