Jessica Jackley Quotes

We gotta bring new ideas to the table and empower each other.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I like to change people's sense of what's possible.

There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

Real progress comes from people.

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and we'll help you.' I think that's the most beautiful prize I've ever heard of.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

Division stifles progress and prevents good ideas - no matter their source - from being heard and considered.

A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history. But we can do much better. I prefer the word hope over optimism.

If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.