For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
Jacqueline NovogratzThe human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.
Jacqueline NovogratzEach of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
Jacqueline NovogratzOne of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.
Jacqueline Novogratz