sustainable impact Quotes

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do these pilots take us? Do they lead to change on a broader scale? If not, how can we ensure that they have broader impact?

I've worked for some amazing leaders, and I've worked for the opposite, and that gave me the perspective of what I knew I never wanted to be, and the perspective of what had lasting, sustainable impact.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring. Speeches like this are fun, actually doing the work is hard.

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.

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.