We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
Jacqueline NovogratzWhen we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.
Jacqueline NovogratzOne of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.
Jacqueline NovogratzI've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.
Jacqueline Novogratz