200 Quotes by Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for change is now.

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

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

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

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?

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

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.