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

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.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

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

What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

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

Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.