Provoking Quotes by Jacqueline Novogratz

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend…

— 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

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for change is now.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

— Jacqueline Novogratz