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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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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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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.
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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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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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Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
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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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If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.
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Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.
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I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.
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Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
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I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
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You should focus on being more interested than interesting.
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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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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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
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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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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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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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What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
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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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