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 need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.