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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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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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All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
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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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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
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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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Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
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Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
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Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.
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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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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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I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
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Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.
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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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What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
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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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I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.
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