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By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.
I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful
If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
I don't see anything changing about our desire for quality and fuel efficiency and safety and smart design, no matter what the vehicle size.
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.
I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.
I've... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.
What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.
A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules on taxation are designed.
I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it.
The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.
There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons very early on.
I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.
We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.
Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.
A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.
My son, Laurier, and I love being outdoors. We like to ski and to skate, to play in the snow, and simply to walk and enjoy the winter scenery.
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.
Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.
I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper.
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.
If you're in space on the way to Mars, and a conflict develops... you can't turn around and go back, because Earth is already gone on its orbit.
I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.
I am still haunted by the memory of my Ugandan friends dying from HIV years ago because high prices kept the medicines they needed out of reach.
The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.
We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.
I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.
Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.
Everybody cares about not only quality and functionality, but they also want the power of choice, whether it's a small vehicle or a large vehicle.
My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.
I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.
Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".
Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.
A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.
Ford is committed to building a sustainable future for the benefit of all Americans, and we believe Ford is on the right path to achieve this vision.
I don't like to just have a repetitive life where I do the same thing over and over. I love to be able to learn something new, explore something new.
The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.