Words matter. These are the best Jim Yong Kim Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn’t seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don’t think there’s a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
I’ve always been engaged in social protection programmes.
If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it’s very simple: because there’s a market in the United States and Europe.
The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
Social media has changed the world forever. We’re not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What’s going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.
A lot of young people don’t think they can make a difference. That’s really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I’m there to tell the young people, ‘Look, a few committed souls can change the world.’
I like to change people’s sense of what’s possible.
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
We will never end poverty if we don’t tackle climate change.
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
I feel like I’m calmer, I’m kinder, I’m more patient the more I do my own meditation.
One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it’s only people who’ve been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.
One of the things I had to really work on is, when you’re the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn’t happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.
