Vernon Davis Quotes

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

I like talking about it, I like talking about world change. I like talking about things that you want to do in your community.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

All community development, and most economic development, happens locally

I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.

We're not really in the real-estate space so much as we are the community-building space.

City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.

I'm about creating positive change in the communities that I come from.

Our credo says that, in the end, we want to drive positive change in the lives of our stakeholders and communities across the world, enabling them to rise.

We in Europe need to discuss how we can improve the community. That is the correct order.

All across America, through the promotion of the arts, neighborhoods create job growth and development.

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.

Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

Trying to learn from communities and engage with policy makers and community organizers all across the country is really important to me.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work - our passion is public projects, wherever they are.

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

I really believe in sharing my story to improve social behaviors in the nation.

Too many developers still treat cultural strategies as a fig leaf to get planning permission, rather than make a thoughtful, genuine commitment to the cultural life of their areas.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.