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.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

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

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

A family is one of nature's solubles

Are you satisfied with you? Great! Are not you? Let's start in the mirror...

Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.

Eugene's got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he's thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"

In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.