What Top Social Entrepreneurs say about a Dogooder’s Attitude
“There’s pressure for everyone to fit themselves into the Silicon Valley, rapid, exponential growth model but that doesn’t allow for dedicating time and resources to focusing on impact.”
2. Melinda Gates, Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
“If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.”
3. Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
“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.”
4. Scott Tatelman — GiveBackGuy, Founder, STATE Bags
“If you’re going to create real impact, it has to be done with the same focus and level of intensity as your business.”
5. Blake Mycoskie, Founder TOMS Shoes & Co-founder Madefor
“If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger — something that matters.”
6. Victor Ochen — Founder & Executive Director, AYINET
The hatreds in the world keep getting tougher to solve! In the end, it comes down to peace. Me loving you, you loving me will do.
7. Ellen Chilemba, Founder TIWALE
“For young entrepreneurs, you start something and have a vision and have to keep up with constant changes in society and innovation around you. It is challenging to work with partners that are not as flexible to change.”
8. Bill Drayton, Founder Ashoka
“Here’s my advice: The first step to becoming a changemaker (the only secure job going forward) is to give oneself permission, i.e. to ignore — politely, of course — all those who say ‘Don’t do it’”
9. Ann Cotton, Founder of CAMFED.
“Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or in giving up.”
10. Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman of the Skoll Foundation
“A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur.”
