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

The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution

We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur