What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

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.

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.

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 started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.