Gita Gopinath Quotes

I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

It's good to put money back into communities.

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Mobilize population and all partners—the public sector and the private sector. Development is everybody’s business.

All community development, and most economic development, happens locally

The real world is somebody is going to win; somebody is going to lose. There are costs to everything, but if you make the long term investment which is investment in education, public health and infrastructure, then we will have a better world.

To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.