Vincent Barabba Quotes

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.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

The public sector can serve as a catalyst for changing attitudes in the private sector.

Are businesses really benefitting if their communities are suffering? It doesn't seem like it.

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

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

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.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.

There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

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

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

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

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

I believe in 'business has a force for good.' You know, business has an impact on society. Of course, it creates jobs. It creates prosperity, but on the other hand, we also leave a negative footprint behind.

At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.