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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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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Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
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Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
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The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
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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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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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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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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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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
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By helping a woman, you help a family.
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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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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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Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.
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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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What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.
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On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
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Too often people view idealists as naive.
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I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job.
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Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.
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I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.
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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.