Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
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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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Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
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People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.
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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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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.
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Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.
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Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.
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Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
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Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.
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Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
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Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
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I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.
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I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.
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We are each other's destiny.
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As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.
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On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
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In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.
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Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
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Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes them feel generous, connected, or seen by others.
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Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
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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 I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.
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I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.