“If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution”

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

Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.

The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.

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

Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.

If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.

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.

To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

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 going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.

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.

When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.

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 entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

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

Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn’t feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.