social impact Quotes

In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's... ...

I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off... ...

We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.