200 Quotes by Jacqueline Novogratz

When individual listening is ingrained in collective culture, the whole community is more likely to shine.

Solving complex problems is rarely accomplished with a silver bullet or a single approach.

We can end poverty if we start by looking at all human beings as part of a single global community that recognizes that everyone deserves a chance to build a life worth living.

With those you aim to serve or lead, your job is to be interested, to help make another person shine, not demonstrate how smart or good or capable you yourself are.

People really don’t want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

As Eleanor Roosevelt wrote long ago, the work of renewing a world based on extending dignity to every being on the planet begins in small places, close to home.

The point is this: We are the system. We decide how to define success, and we can reject purely individualistic terms.

I’ve learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low – or no – expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.

Things are always harder than you think they’re going to be.