Latest Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes from Interviews

• The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Fluffy, Way, Helping

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Believe, People, Relentless

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• 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.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Taken, People, Giving

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Determined, Relentless, Optimist

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Country, Strong, Race

• Sigo pensando que el tipo de líder que quiero ser es el que dedica tiempo a comprender nuestro trabajo de forma que me permita traducirlo para los responsables políticos y las personas que tienen acceso real a los recursos.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Real, People, Leader

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Fighting, Entrepreneur, Needs

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Fuerte, Oportunidad, Gente

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Way, Firsts, Patient

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Integrity, Respecting Others, Ifs

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Party, Opportunity, Ideas

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• 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, to have the patience to start and let the work teach you, to be willing to lead when you need to lead, and to listen. To have a sense of generosity and empathy, but not over-empathy, because accountability is so critical to building solutions that work.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Humility, Generosity

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  World, Firsts, Continents

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• Me animaron a romper todas las reglas, a tomar lo mejor de la filantropía, lo mejor de la inversión y lo mejor de la financiación del desarrollo, y a experimentar con nuevas formas de crear este modelo de capital riesgo de utilizar la filantropía para respaldar las inversiones de capital paciente, y luego construir soluciones que se midieran en términos del tipo de impacto y cambio que estaban haciendo en la vida de las personas y en el mundo, no sólo en el rendimiento financiero.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Impact, People, Development

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Jobs, Hands, Ideas

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• 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.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Water, Choices

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Entrepreneur, Charity, Aids

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• 1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Mother, Hate, Fall

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

• El espíritu humano es extraordinario. Si damos a los 3.000 millones de personas que viven en la pobreza la oportunidad de cambiar sus vidas, lo harán. Durante demasiado tiempo, hemos considerado necesario "salvar" a estas personas -con énfasis en "estas personas"- en lugar de eliminar las limitaciones que les impiden resolver sus propios problemas.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Oportunidad, Largo, Gente

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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