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Jessica Jackley Quotes

Invest your life in what you love.

Invest your life in what you love.

Jessica Jackley
What You Love

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
Night, Focus, Entrepreneur
"PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: "I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

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

Jessica Jackley
Reality, Creating Value, Empowering

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
Thinking, Stories, Matter
"Poverty, Money — and Love". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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

Jessica Jackley
Heart, Entrepreneurship
Jessica Jackley (2015). “Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least”, p.15, Spiegel & Grau

The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

Jessica Jackley
Sexy, Fun, Light

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

Jessica Jackley
Believe, Entrepreneur, World
"How a dollar can buy dignity and power" by Jessica Jackley, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2010.

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

Jessica Jackley
Powerful, Empowering, Poverty

I love having real conversations with entrepreneurs who have built their companies from the ground up, with nothing but their own drive, passion, and courage, and I'm constantly learning new things as I hear each one's unique journey.

Jessica Jackley
Real, Passion, Journey
Source: www.slate.com

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

Jessica Jackley
Dream, Entrepreneurship, Empowered
"PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: 'I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail''" by lyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

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