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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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What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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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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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
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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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Dignity is more important than wealth.
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Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
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Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
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What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
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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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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
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.
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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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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
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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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I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
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The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.
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