Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

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

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

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

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

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

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

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

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

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

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 well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

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

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

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

You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

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

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

Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142)