Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz is an American entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a non-profit global venture capital fund whose goal is to use entrepreneurial approaches to address global poverty. Acumen has invested over $90 million of patient capital in 80 businesses that have impacted more than 125 million people in the past year. Any money returned to Acumen is reinvested in enterprises serving the poor. Currently, Acumen has offices in New York, Mumbai, Karachi, Nairobi, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.
Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
We don't see profit as a blind instrument.
Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.
I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.
I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.