“A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for al...” — Jacqueline Novogratz Quote

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

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Changing the world is not easy.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

When you use social media to create a judgment on somebody, it is such a small sampling.

I try to create homes, not houses.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!