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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - BUDDHA — Jacqueline Novogratz

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism. — Jacqueline Novogratz

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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 — Jacqueline Novogratz

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. — Jacqueline Novogratz

As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, we need to find better solutions that will include everyone in today's opportunities. (197) — Jacqueline Novogratz

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Too often people view idealists as naive. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.' — Jacqueline Novogratz

Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Changing the world is not easy. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening. — Jacqueline Novogratz

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence. — Jacqueline Novogratz

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know. — Jacqueline Novogratz

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We are connected, but the weave is sometimes fragile. (192) — Jacqueline Novogratz

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions. — Jacqueline Novogratz

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. — Jacqueline Novogratz

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible. — Jacqueline Novogratz

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We need moral leadership and courage in our world. — Jacqueline Novogratz

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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 — Jacqueline Novogratz

If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity — Jacqueline Novogratz

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary. — Jacqueline Novogratz

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Power corrupts on an equal-opportunity basis. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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. — Jacqueline Novogratz

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for change is now. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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? — Jacqueline Novogratz

We don't see profit as a blind instrument. — Jacqueline Novogratz

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little. — Jacqueline Novogratz

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. — Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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. — Jacqueline Novogratz

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Dignity is more important than wealth. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The Pakistanis are very resilient people. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda. — Jacqueline Novogratz

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Nothing important happens in life without a cost. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now. — Jacqueline Novogratz

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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. — Jacqueline Novogratz

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice. — Jacqueline Novogratz

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving. — Jacqueline Novogratz

You should focus on being more interested than interesting. — Jacqueline Novogratz

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself. — Jacqueline Novogratz

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying? — Jacqueline Novogratz

I should learn to be a bird on the outside and a tiger within. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We are each other's destiny. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. — Jacqueline Novogratz

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world. — Jacqueline Novogratz

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford. — Jacqueline Novogratz