Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

I believe in being an innovator.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

We need innovation and creativity.

The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions.

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

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

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.