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. Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
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. Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
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. Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
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.’ Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better – because your job is to try to help everybody else get better. Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
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. Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there’s a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. Jim Yong Kim Read Quote
