Judith Rodin Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

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

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

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

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

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

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.

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.