We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito]… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world. — 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 Image
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 Image
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“We are connected, but the weave is sometimes fragile. (192)” — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
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 Image
