We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

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.

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it you'll find an answer.

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

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.

Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.