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Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
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the United States of America
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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
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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 have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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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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When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
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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 was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
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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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Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
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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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Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
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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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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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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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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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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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If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.
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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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