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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
Businessperson
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the United States of America
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My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.
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I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.
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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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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.
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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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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
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We can send people to the Moon we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?
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Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
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Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
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When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.
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Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.
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My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
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Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.
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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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If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.
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Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
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