Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Jobs #Perfect #Thought Provoking
“Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Important #Sometimes
“I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Hands #Empathy #Survival
“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”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Strong #Successful #Impact
“I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thinking #Leader #Experts
“Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Important #Spirit
“Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Insecurity #Income #Levels
“When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Self #Choices #Denial
“The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Dream #Humility #Audacity
“Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#People #Age #Television
“My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Dream #Thought Provoking #World
“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
“Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Mean #Thought Provoking #Ordinary
“There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#People #Thought Provoking #Low Income
“The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Provoking #Solutions
“I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #World #Continents
“When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Opportunity #Broken #Thought Provoking
“Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Dream #Past #Compassion
“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.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Live Life #Thought Provoking #May
“After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Being Real #Atrocities
“We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Planets #Connected
“The time for change is now.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Time For A Change #Provoking
“What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Trying #Cost
“Nothing important happens in life without a cost.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Important #Cost
“Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Beautiful #Past #Thought Provoking
“I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Dark #Thought Provoking #Sides
“What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Provoking #Humans
“Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Girl #Boys #Men
“Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking #Planets #Provoking
“Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.”
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Lying #Thought Provoking #Infinite

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