Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.