Jacqueline Novogratz Quotations | Page 2

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.

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

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.

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

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?

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