Judith Rodin Quotes

• Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

  Judith Rodin

  Risk, Philanthropy

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• It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

  Judith Rodin

  Sufficient

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• Never...stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.

  Judith Rodin

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

  Judith Rodin

  Children, Simple, Play

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• Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

  Judith Rodin

  Impact, Ideas, Innovation

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• Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

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  Expectations, Way, Fulfilled

  Judith Rodin (1992). “Body Traps: Breaking the Binds that Keep You from Feeling Good about Your Body”, William Morrow & Company

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• A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

  Judith Rodin

  Impact, Issues, Support

  "How Modern Finance Promises to Break the Cycle of Recidivism". "PBS NewsHour" with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. March 14, 2013.

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• We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

  Judith Rodin

  Empowering, Empowering Women, Urgency

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• Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

  Judith Rodin

  Powerful, Impact, Investing

  Judith Rodin, Margot Brandenburg (2014). “The Power of Impact Investing: Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good”, p.16, Wharton Digital Press

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• The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

  Judith Rodin

  Keys, Empowering, Economic

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• The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

  Judith Rodin

  Years, John D Rockefeller, Genius

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• I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

  Judith Rodin

  Years, Foundation, Lasts

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