200 Quotes by Jacqueline Novogratz

Just start Don’t wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

Africans didn’t want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

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.

Don’t let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models – with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

How you see where you are always depends on where you’ve been.

We don’t see profit as a blind instrument.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don’t solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

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.

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