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 smal….

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

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition..

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

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

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

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy..

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

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the….

In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organizati….

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry..

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.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field..

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole..

We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, y….

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends..

What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually….

Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congr….