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.

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.

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution