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

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

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is….

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Onc….

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker..

The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see p….

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 pe….

How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be ….

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur.

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 s….

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

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change..

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

We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get thro….

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

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 prob….

What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-mak….

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

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..

Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming….

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social….