What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social…

“Remember too that business entrepreneurs can be iconoclasts, hermits, and even cranks. Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, reportedly wasn’t Mr. Warm-and-Fuzzy in person. He…

— Pamela Price

“Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively.. In contrast, social entrepreneurs have received little attention. Historically, they have been cast as…

— David Bornstein

“One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns…

— Thomas L. Friedman

Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare.…

— Bill Drayton

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

— Bill Drayton

Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical…

— Naveen Jain

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

— David Bornstein

“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play…

— David Bornstein

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…

— Bill Drayton

“we must ultimately regard modern working homeschool parents as social entrepreneurs, people who bring change close to home and within the larger structure of society.”

— Pamela Price

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…

— Bill Drayton

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing…

— Jeffrey Skoll

Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

— Jean-Philippe Courtois

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism.…

— Eboo Patel

Social entrepreneurs come from different backgrounds and are by and large, starved of capital. Such socialpreneurs must have extraordinary passion to follow their dreams.

— Sudha Murty