Jackley Quotes

#1. People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

Tony Parsons

#2. I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.

Jessica Jackley

#3. As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

Jessica Jackley

#4. My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

Andre Agassi

#5. From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

Jessica Jackley

#6. It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley

#7. I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

Jessica Jackley

#8. She wished that these kinds of advances in reproductive medicine had been available to her. But then the embryo that had developed into Anna would've been discarded.

Lisa Genova

#9. Woman work a great many miracles.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in.

Jessica Jackley

#11. Find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.

Rihanna

#12. Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

Jessica Jackley

#13. The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do.

Jessica Jackley

#14. Art is fun to buy.

Jessica Jackley

#15. Invest your life in what you love.

Jessica Jackley

#16. One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.

Jessica Jackley

#17. Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

Rachel Sklar

#18. The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

Jessica Jackley

#19. Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

David Mitchell