Donald Bren Quotes

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Nations are not built by governments alone. The government can at best be a facilitator, and a trigger for society's innate entrepreneurial and creative instincts.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

I wanted to better inform the world.

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.

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.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

I think that my peers deserve more than products to buy wrapped up in advertising. We need ideas to share and causes to believe in - opportunities to lead and teach.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.