Quotes from Jacqueline Novogratz

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

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?

I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.

Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.

The time for change is now.

We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.

By helping a woman, you help a family.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.