Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.”

“Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.”

“There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.”

“This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.”

“Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.”

“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.”

“I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?”

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

“Changing the world is not easy.”

“Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.”