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

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.