Hans Rosling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.
-- Hans Rosling

#Country #Motivation #Inspiration
Let the dataset change your mindset
-- Hans Rosling

#Mindset #Changing Your Mind
You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.
-- Hans Rosling

#Children #World #Poverty
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
-- Hans Rosling

#Motivation #War #Inspiration
I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
-- Hans Rosling

#Names #Suggestions #World
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to â€˜Twitterâ€™ transatlantically.
-- Hans Rosling

#Queens #Eight #Years
The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.
-- Hans Rosling

#Innovation #Hug #Databases
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.
-- Hans Rosling

#Book #Steel #Industrialization
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy
-- Hans Rosling

#Decision #Political #Analysis
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
-- Hans Rosling

#Children #Average #Population
My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
-- Hans Rosling

#Numbers #Rights #Data
Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].
-- Hans Rosling

#People #Appreciate #Needs
There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.
-- Hans Rosling

#Motivation #Inspiration #Two
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
-- Hans Rosling

#Motivation #Inspiration #Years
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
-- Hans Rosling

#School #Opportunity #Rights
Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.
-- Hans Rosling

#God #Baby #Numbers
I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.
-- Hans Rosling

#Motivation #Inspiration #World
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
-- Hans Rosling

#Children #Motivation #Inspiration
Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.
-- Hans Rosling

#Motivation #Inspiration #Kids
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
-- Hans Rosling

#Country #Motivation #War
If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.
-- Hans Rosling

#Children #Motivation #Inspiration
Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.
-- Hans Rosling

#Motivation #Inspiration #Energy
If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!
-- Hans Rosling

#Motivation #Inspiration #People
When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
-- Hans Rosling

#Sleep #Night #Thinking

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