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32 quotes by Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim Hangul 김용 Hanja 金墉 Revised Romanization Gim Yong McCune–Reischauer Kim Yong Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, also known as Kim Yong (Hangul: 김용; hanja: 金墉; born December 8, 1959), is a Korean American physician and anthropologist who has been the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1 2012. He was President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012. He was formerly the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard...
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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... →

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Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is... →

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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... →

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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.

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Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

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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... →

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I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We... →

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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.... →

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What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished... →

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Hope is a moral choice.

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I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

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I like to change people's sense of what's possible.

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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

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