Quotes from Jacqueline Novogratz

The Pakistanis are very resilient people.

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.

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

Changing the world is not easy.

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

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.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

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

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.