Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
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This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
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As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution.
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Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
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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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The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
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Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
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When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.
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Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.
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Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.
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I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.
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Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.
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By helping a woman, you help a family.
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Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.
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We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
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Too often people view idealists as naive.
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Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?
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The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
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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.
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What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.
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I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.
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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.