Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.