Jon Fishman Quotes

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well being. If you're dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

I'm big on my community and want to stay that way.

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

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

I'm a reflection of the community.

I like to go home and get involved in my community.

My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.

When I can, I enjoy working with local people to involve everyone in the community in changing their environment.

Airbnb is built on the foundation of creating community through belonging, and we're honored to stand with a bipartisan group of mayors and businesses from across the country dedicated to improving communities by addressing affordable housing and homelessness.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

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

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

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

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.

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.