Melinda Gates

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Patron Of The Arts · Born Aug 15, 1964 · United States Of America · Female

Melinda Ann Gates(née French; born August 15, 1964), DBE is an American philanthropist, former Microsoft employee, and wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. She is co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Encarta and Expedia. 2Early life and education Melinda Ann French was born on August 15, 1964 in Dallas, Texas. She is the second of four children to Raymond Joseph French Jr., an aerospace engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker. French has an older sister and two younger brothers. French, a Roman Catholic, attended St. Monica Catholic School, where she was the top student in her class year. She graduated as valedictorian from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982. She earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986 and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 198

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From “The Science of Success”

“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.”

Tagged: Mindset, Successful, Somewhere, sometime, someone

From “Melinda Gates shares scalable ways to invest in women”

“Over time, I developed the confidence to stop trying to emulate others and to lead in a way that felt comfortable and true to me, it made all the difference. So trust yourself and trust your own voice. Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to…”

Tagged: Confidence, emulate, comfortable, Comfort, Trust

“It’s less about a specific a policy or program that the development community is creating, it’s more about what women are creating for themselves.”

Tagged: Policy, Program, Development, Community, Society

From “Text of the 2014 Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates”

“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”

Tagged: essential, ingredient, Success, Luck, Birth

“Let your heart break. It will change what you do with your optimism.”

Tagged: heart, Break, Love, Ache, Loss

“Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.”

Tagged: Optimism, passive, Expectation, get better, Conviction

Melinda Gates

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