Quotes from Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

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.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.