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.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

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

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

The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

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.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.