Quotes & Sayings About Social Entrepreneurship

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk's patience, a Warrior's courage, a Child's imagination. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. — David Bornstein

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business. — Onyi Anyado

Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing. — Sherree Mongrain

I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship. — George Soros

[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills. — Doug Bandow

I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort. — Klaus Schwab

I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place. — Sabriye Tenberken

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance. — Ben Cohen

What is your hands to make a difference in the world? — Artika R. Tyner

We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school — Sharad Vivek Sagar

If money could have changed the world, money would have changed the world. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously. — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

There's a reason why I've spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government. — Robert Hacker

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base. — Mitch Kapor

Consistency. Clarity. Courage. I like to stand for consistency, clarity and courage in my thoughts, words, and actions. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen. — Richie Norton

What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in varying degrees, security, prosperity, social services and greater equality. We have grown accustomed in recent years to the assertion that the price paid for these benefits - in economic inefficiency, insufficient innovation, stifled entrepreneurship, public debt and a loss of private initiative - was too high. Most of these criticisms are demonstrably false. — Tony Judt

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Don't wait. Start stuff. — Richie Norton

We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

A small crack in a wall, the wall might fall. A small crack in a relationship, several walls get created. — Santosh Avvannavar

I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community. — Lamar Tyler

Not everyone understand everything. — Dee Dee Artner

The Big Investments of tomorrow need not be on the Stock Exchange. They need to be in our schools. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!". — John Wood

And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation. — Peter F. Drucker

Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

We had a policy of "no looking back". Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions.

"Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work. — John Wood

Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community. — Hamdi Ulukaya

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters — Sharad Vivek Sagar

The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service. — Ramon Magsaysay

Sometimes people ask me why am I so excited about what I do. My reply mostly is, You see one celebrity and get excited. I see several hundred thousand future celebrities, change makers, and world movers, everyday. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

My dream is to ensure or create a platform for every single kid, a platform that would enable them to level up in their lives and to achieve to their full potential. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively..

In contrast, social entrepreneurs have received little attention. Historically, they have been cast as humanitarians or saints, and stories of their work have been passed down more in the form of children's tales than case studies. While the stories may inspire, they fail to make social entrepreneurs' methods comprehensible. One can analyze an entrepreneur, but how does one analyze a saint? — David Bornstein

People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage. — Darren Walker

There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace. — Robert Spector

There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects. — Thomas L. Friedman

Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

I can't go out and plant a million trees, but I can go out and tell [students] to plant 10 each. Sometimes you need to ask yourself what exactly do you want- a grove or a forest? — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Close your eyes, imagine yourself in the world of your dreams, imagine everything you ever wanted, live that moment, get the feel of it. Once you've lived that moment in your mind fully, open your eyes and get started with work, work as hard as possible, do all that it takes to live that moment in real. Just do it, it's possible. — Sharad Vivek Sagar