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The time for change is now.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
Banker
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the United States of America
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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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.
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Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.
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Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
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Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.
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If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.
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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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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?
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For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
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I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
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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
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
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Dignity is more important than wealth.
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When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.
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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.
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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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