Jim Yong Kim Quotes

Jim Yong Kim — South Korean Public Servant

Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, also known as Kim Yong, is a Korean American physician and anthropologist who has served as the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1, 2012... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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

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.