Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.
Nothing important happens in life without a cost. 
On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day. 
Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda. 
The Pakistanis are very resilient people. 
We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet. 
Dignity is more important than wealth. 
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. 
I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people. 
Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. 
As is so often the case, the supposedly insignificant understood the psychology of the strong, while the strong didn't have a clue about the other. 
I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist. 
By helping a woman, you help a family. 
When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. 
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little. 
We don't see profit as a blind instrument. ![Jacqueline Novogratz quotes: We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jacqueline-novogratz-quotes-550688.jpg "Jacqueline Novogratz quotes: We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?")
We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people? 
The time for change is now. 
I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money. 
What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other. 
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford. 
When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world. 
Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. 
I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital. 
We are each other's destiny. 
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty. 
I should learn to be a bird on the outside and a tiger within. 
What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying? 
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other. 
You should focus on being more interested than interesting. 
To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving. 
What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice. 
There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving. 
It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share. 
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty. 
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now. 
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots. 
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force. 
Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us. 
If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself. 
If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly. 
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. 
People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference. 
Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change. 
People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live 
Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future. 
Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered. 
Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity 
Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children. 
I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership. 
How you see where you are always depends on where you've been. 
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written. 
A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all. 
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe. 
Things are always harder than you think they're going to be. 
Power corrupts on an equal-opportunity basis. 
Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty. 
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us. 
Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary. 
I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male. 
Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions. 
We need moral leadership and courage in our world. 