Melinda Gates has been well-known as an American philanthropist and general manager at Microsoft.Melinda went to St. Monica Catholic School and later attended Ursuline Academy of Dallas. She was a computer science graduate from Duke University and got her MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.Melinda, with her husband, Bill Gates, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Their greatest challenge was to establish equal value in a backward society. She used a standard tactic and her strongest instinct to replace men with girls by expanding access to unique skills. Melinda Gates was honored with the US Presidential Medal of Freedom.Famous Melinda Gates QuotesMelinda Gates began her career as a tutor in mathematics and computer programming. After graduation, she started working with Microsoft as a marketing manager.“Many successful social movements are driven by the same combination — strong activism and the ability to take pain without passing it on. Anyone who can combine those two finds a voice with moral force.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“I knew coming out of high school that I wanted to make a difference in the world. I really had this belief already, and maybe it had been instilled in me, I think, both by my parents and the nuns, these pretty liberal nuns who taught us in high school.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“An abusive culture, to me, is any culture that needs to single out and exclude a group.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“Saving lives starts with bringing everyone in.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“One of the biggest challenges in changing the culture is lifting the self-image of the kids. They’ve had self-doubt planted in their minds by society, the media, even members of their own family.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“Love is the most powerful and underused force for change in the world. … For me, love is the effort to help others flourish — and it often begins with lifting up a person’s self image.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“I can bring a perspective that’s different than Bill’s. I can bring these voices forward, and so I started to speak more publicly.““Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.““Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life-and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.““I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.““We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.““On the day I die, I want people to think that I was a great mom, a great family member, and a great friend. I care about that more than I care about anything else.““After a number of years of dating, we decided we were good partners.““That’s universal-we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.““Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That, to me, is what’s wrong with the school system.““Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.“Melinda Gates Quotes About Women EmpowermentMelinda Gates authored the book ‘The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World’, highlighting the failure to acknowledge women’s unpaid work.“Being a feminist means believing that every woman should be able to use her voice and pursue her potential and that women and men should all work together to take down the barriers and end the biases that still hold women back.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“Gender diversity is not just good for women; it’s good for anyone who wants results.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“When women are trying to decide whether we should stand up, we don’t know if others will stand with us. It often takes many women, arms linked, to inspire other women to speak.” - ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“Disrespect for women grows when religions are dominated by men. … Some parts of the Church come from God, and some parts come from man—and the part of the Church that excludes women comes from man.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“If you want to lift humanity, empower women. It is the most comprehensive, pervasive, high-leverage investment you can make in human beings.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.““Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.“Melinda Gates Quotes About PhilanthropyMelinda Gates launched a campaign in 2006 to raise $300 million to expand facilities at Seattle Children’s.“Great wealth can be very confusing. It can inflate and distort your sense of self—especially if you believe money means merit.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“We have to open up to others. We have to give up the need to be separate and superior.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“Not everybody is going to dedicate their whole life to connecting with the poorest people in the world. But just because you don’t qualify for sainthood doesn’t mean you can’t form deep human connections – or that your connections can’t make a difference in the world.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.““Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.““Take your genius and your optimism and your empathy and go change the world in ways that will make millions of others optimistic as well.““Philanthropy is not about money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improve the world.““So let’s go make some waves. Let’s keep moving this industry forward. For the better. For everyone. And for good.“Melinda Gates Quotes About SuccessMelinda Gates has been inducted several times into Forbes’ lists of the 100 Most Powerful Women.“Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.““We also believe in taking risks, because that’s how you move things along.““I’m wholehearted about whatever I do.““I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.““What great changes have not been ambitious?““If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“If you don’t set your own agenda, somebody else will. If I didn’t fill my schedule with things I felt were important, other people would fill my schedule with things they felt were important.”- ‘The Moment Of Lift’.“You learn by doing, you learn by trying and making mistakes, and it’s the questions you ask.““Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better.““I’m often asked what motivates me to do the work I do. I never hesitate for a moment. It’s the people.”
Melinda Gates has been well-known as an American philanthropist and general manager at Microsoft.
