Author: Melinda Gates

Quotes

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

- Melinda Gates

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

- Melinda Gates

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

- Melinda Gates

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

- Melinda Gates

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

- Melinda Gates

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

- Melinda Gates

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

- Melinda Gates

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

- Melinda Gates

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