Social Innovation Quotes:

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

- Geoff Mulgan

topic: Ideas, Design, Innovation, Social Innovation

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Innovation, Souls In Love

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wisdom, Social Development, Social Good

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

- Cheryl Heller

topic: Real, Broken, Innovation, Social Innovation, Real Work

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Wise, Innovation, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

- John Cage

source: "From mundane to marvellous: Darren Fletcher's startling transformation" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

- Geoff Mulgan

source: "Going global: social innovation" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

topic: Zero, Distance, Government, Social Innovation, Society Today

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

- David Allen

topic: Hammers, Tools, Spaghetti, Social Innovation, Solved Problems

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Social Innovation, One Person Can Make A Difference

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

- Paul Dickson

topic: Law, Innovation, Levels, Social Innovation

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

- Mark Batterson

topic: Taken, Creativity, Games, Social Innovation, Nolan

Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.

- Ed Holder

topic: College, Organization, Issues, Social Innovation

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

- James Surowiecki

source: "Net Losses". www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2006.

topic: Innovation, Littles, Fields, Social Innovation, Level Playing Field