Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes - Page 2

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• When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more

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  Strong, Successful, Impact

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• We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

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  Our World, Moral Leadership, Thought Provoking

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

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  Thinking, Thought Provoking, Harder

  "Patient capitalism". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. June 2007.

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• In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.

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  Our Generation, People, Community

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.108, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Creating, Alliances, Models

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• Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Insecurity, Income, Levels

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

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  Girl, Boys, Men

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• The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

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  Opportunity, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.

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  Fluffy, Way, Helping

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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

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  Thought Provoking, Trying, Cost

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• Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

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  Thought Provoking, Events, This Generation

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• Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Thought Provoking

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

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  People, Thought Provoking, Dollars

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• You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

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  Interesting, Focus, Should

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.105, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

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  Treatment, Humans, Human Beings

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• I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

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  Believe, People, Relentless

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• The time for change is now.

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  Thought Provoking, Time For A Change, Provoking

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• As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

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  Trying, Twenties, World

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.4, HarperCollins Publishers

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

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  Thought Provoking, Humans, Visible

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

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  Thought Provoking, Being Real, Atrocities

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

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  Beautiful, Past, Thought Provoking

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

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  Dark, Thought Provoking, Sides

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

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  Lying, Thought Provoking, Infinite

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• We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

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  Thought Provoking, Blind, Profit

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

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  Live Life, Thought Provoking, May

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