Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 15

• Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

  Max McKeown

  Provoking, Following, Industry

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.76, Pearson UK

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• A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process. If that includes supporting a military exercise of some sort without sending troops, that is on the table, as long as this is not the only option that people look at.

  Marwan al-Muasher

  Country, Military, Exercise

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• It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.

  Marwan al-Muasher

  Hands, Figures, Force

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• Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Important, Cost, Happens

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Important, Sometimes, Provoking

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• The time for change is now.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Time For A Change, Provoking

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• We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Our World, Moral Leadership, Needs

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• We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Children, Believe, Humility

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• Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Mean, Ordinary, Poor

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Saving, Want, Provoking

  "Is 'Patient Capitalism' The Answer To Poverty?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 18, 2013.

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• Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Motivation, Inspiration, Force

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Distance, People, Littles

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• A house that has a library in it has a soul.

  Plato

  Healing, House, Soul

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Listening

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

  Pope Francis

  Stress, Dignity Of Work, People

  Pope Francis' address to the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2013.

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Charity, Poverty, Problem

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thinking, People, Our Actions

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• The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Way, Poverty, Poor

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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Levels, Looks, Theater

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Broken, Innovation

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Low Income, Individual

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Provoking, Solutions

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  World, African Continent, Continents

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thinking, Harder, Provoking

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

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