Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways. — 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… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world… — 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
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
I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best… — 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 only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a… — 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
One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works. — 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
“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
