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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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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
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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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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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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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I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.
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So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.
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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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Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
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I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.
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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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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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Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
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There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.
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Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
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