An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

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.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

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

Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

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