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

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.

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.

How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

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.

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