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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.