Alex Steffen Quotes

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.

I really want to build something to make the world a better place.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

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.

I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

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.