Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“If you move through the world with only your compassion, then you walk on only one leg. But if you move through the world… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
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… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
“Honorata's story reminds me of the extraordinary power of the human spirit to withstand almost anything. Her story also speaks to the power of… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
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… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. No one expects you to get it right in the beginning, and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
