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Developing World Quotes

On access, growth, and opportunity.

These quotes discuss the developing world through technology access, education gaps, and the shift from strict conservation toward sustainable development. Several relate to our Business quotes on global growth.

As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept and strategy to encourage the developing world to protect biodiversity resources for the sake of future generations and...

Quotes by Yossi Ghinsberg

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.

Quotes by Sundar Pichai

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Quotes by Sugata Mitra

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

Quotes by Pratibha Patil

Africa Quotes

One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.

Quotes by Mary Lou Jepsen

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

Quotes by Lee R. Raymond

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain...

Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

Quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Quotes by Emma Thompson

Ale Quotes

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

Quotes by Douglas Alexander

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

Quotes by Caitriona Balfe

It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Quotes by Annie Lennox

If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be...

Quotes by Anne M. Mulcahy

Brethren Quotes

We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.

Quotes by Alex Steffen

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is...

Quotes by Alex Steffen

Frequently Asked Questions

What topics come up most in these quotes?
Technology access, low-cost computing, education availability, and the balance between conservation and development all appear across the samples.
Is there a quote about the Amazon specifically?
Yes, one discusses how conservation approaches there evolved, noting that strict conservation was originally a Western-driven strategy.
Do these quotes discuss education?
Yes, one notes that good schools and teachers remain scarce in parts of the developing world as well as in other underserved areas.
Is technology access a recurring theme?
Yes — a couple of quotes focus on delivering low-cost computing and reducing power consumption to make technology more accessible.
Where can I find more quotes on global growth topics?
See our Business quotes collection for related material.

For related reading, see quotes on Africa, or browse Brethren quotes on shared global concerns.