Jessica Jackley Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. But I am going to keep going. I am going to soar, and soar, and break away - up, up, up into the thundering noise and the wind, like a bird being sucked into the sky.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

#5. He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

Edith Wharton

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

Jessica Jackley

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

Jessica Jackley

#8. We love each other because he loved us first. - 1 John 4:19

Gary Chapman

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

Jessica Jackley

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

Jessica Jackley

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

Jessica Jackley

#13. [Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

Tim Buck

#14. Art is fun to buy.

Jessica Jackley

#15. Make your own decisions. Make your own choices.

Lisa Mangum

#16. Invest your life in what you love.

Jessica Jackley

#17. 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

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

Rachel Sklar

#19. At Eleven Madison Park, instead of brioche or chocolates, we give our guests a jar of breakfast granola as a gift at the end of a meal. We also make savory granolas.

Daniel Humm

#20. 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

#21. There is nothing more important in life than love.

Barbra Streisand