"If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake."
— Bill Gates
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If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake.
About this quote
This saying is widely attributed to Gates but investigators at Quote Investigator found no evidence it originates with him — it appears to have circulated anonymously online from at least 1997, predating any documented Gates attribution. Gates's philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on global poverty reduction, makes it particularly unlikely he would have expressed such an individualistic and unsympathetic view of poverty.
Source
Attributed, widely reported in Gates anthologies
