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I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
Banker
Businessperson
Consultant
Entrepreneur
Financial Analyst
the United States of America
Believe
People
Relentless
Deeply

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All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
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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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You should focus on being more interested than interesting.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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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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Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.
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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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There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.
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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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If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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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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Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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