Addresses Quote by Jerry Greenfield

“Businesses are uniquely capable of creating social value and solving social problems - they have this wonderful fuel called the profit motive.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

— Noam Chomsky

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't…

— George Soros

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

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the…

— Richard Branson

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that…

— Milton Friedman

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

— Jon Miller

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't…

— George Soros

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

— Cameron Sinclair

Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham