What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

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.

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.

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.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry