Peter Maurer Quotes

I've always known I've wanted to build companies that have a social impact.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

Social enterprise is an effective solution for social problems.

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.

The creative capacity of the private sector should be harnessed to develop new and more effective ways to deliver humanitarian solutions.

There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.

While governments are not off the hook, the charity world needs to innovate and find new ways to attract outside investment to boost our social productivity.

Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.

I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.

Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

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

The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves.

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.