Adam Braun Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.

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

If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.

You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.

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 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.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

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.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

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

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.

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.

The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.