Jacqueline Novogratz Thought Provoking Quotations

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.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

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.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

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.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The time for change is now.

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

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

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

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

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

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

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

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

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

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

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.