Social Entrepreneurship Quotes

“To become a successful changemaker, you don't have to study social entrepreneurship. You do need to understand the workings of the systems you hope to change and the history of the problem with which you are concerned.”
― David Bornstein, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®

“In describing the causes of poverty, Muhammad Yunus has often compared a poor person to a bonsai tree. The seed of a bonsai has the potential to grow into a full-size tree, but, planted in a tiny pot, its growth is stunted. To Yunus, a person deprived of education or opportunity is like a bonsai. The constraint isn’t the seed, it’s the pot.”
― David Bornstein, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®

“Their stories have gone underreported. Even as news and information inundate us, the proliferation of people building new organizations to address social problems—millions of them—remains”
― David Bornstein, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®