Jacqueline Novogratz

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

— Jacqueline Novogratz

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions.…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“My first grade nun had instructed me that from those to whom much is given, much is expected. I was learning that…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives,…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals.…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay,…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“If you move through the world with only your compassion, then you walk on only one leg. But if you move through…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Our most most effective leaders, therefore, will strengthen their knowledge of how to build organizations while also having the vision and heart…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme…

— Jacqueline Novogratz