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.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

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

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.

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.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.