Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

I know my father can make a difference.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we can not only change a life or save a life, but we can also make it possible for other people to speak up. If we harness the collective power of people's voices around America to address the opioid epidemic, I have no doubt that we can overcome it.

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.