Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
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Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.
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The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.
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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
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Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.
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Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.
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I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
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For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
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When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more
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Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
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Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
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Dignity is more important than wealth.
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We need moral leadership and courage in our world.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.
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When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
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There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.
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All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
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I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
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The time for change is now.
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My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
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As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.
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We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.
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The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.
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Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
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Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.
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Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.
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When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
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Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
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Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?
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