Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jacqueline Novogratz on Wise Famous Quotes.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - BUDDHA
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. - LU XUN
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, we need to find better solutions that will include everyone in today's opportunities. (197)
One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.
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
If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly.
Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity
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.
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
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.
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?
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.
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
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.