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

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.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

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

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

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.

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.