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The time for change is now.
Changing the world is not easy.
Dignity is more important than wealth.
By helping a woman, you help a family.
Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.
Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
Too often people view idealists as naive.
The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
We don't see profit as a blind instrument.
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.
Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
We need moral leadership and courage in our world.
I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.
Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.
To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.
You should focus on being more interested than interesting.
Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.
Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.
I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.
When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.
Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.
Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.
I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.
On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.