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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

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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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
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I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.
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When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.
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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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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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Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
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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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Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
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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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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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