Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be, to have the patience to start and let the work teach you, to be willing to lead when you need to lead, and to listen. To have a sense of generosity and empathy, but not over-empathy, because accountability is so critical to building solutions that work.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.

To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.

I don't shy away from things that may be a little different, but own them and implement them in the coverage that I do.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.