Quotes from Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

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?

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?

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

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

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.