Laurene Powell Jobs Quotes

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.

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

I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.

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.

There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.

Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.

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

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

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

If you're trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that's really important to our mission at Indie Bio.

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

Social enterprise is an effective solution for social problems.

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

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.

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

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

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

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.

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

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

I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.