You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.
Interpretation
Commercializing a social mission can undermine its core values.
This quote suggests that the essence of a social mission can be compromised if it becomes too commercialized. The act of prioritizing profit over purpose can lead to a loss of authenticity and the original intent behind the mission, emphasizing the need for balance between financial sustainability and social impact.
In practice
Using this quote in a social entrepreneurship conference to highlight the importance of maintaining values.
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
The ideal is to build a culture of healthy discussion, where everyone's ideas are valued. At KIND, we want everyone to be comfortable challenging my or anyone else's ideas without ever feeling or making someone else feel that the questioning is a personal attack.
My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.
To maintain our entrepreneurial spirit, we have to create a culture in which everyone remembers that every order, big or small - and every interaction, every moment - will define what our company is today and what it will become tomorrow.
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability maintain that my very existence is miraculous. But then after however many decades, less than a hundred years, they disburse and I cease to be. So while they're all congregated and coordinated to make me, then-and I speak her on behalf of all those trillions of atoms-I should really make the most of things.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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