Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
Melinda GatesBill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.
Melinda GatesHaving children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
Melinda Gates