Jacqueline Novogratz

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

— 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

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Each of us needs to develop the courage to listen with our whole heart and mind, to give love without asking for…

— 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

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised…

— 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

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken…

— 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

Dignity is more important than wealth.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water,…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— 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

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

— 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

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— 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

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz