Social Business Quotes

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fun, World, Making Money

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• I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fun, People, Entrepreneur

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• Help the people in your network. And let them help you.

  Reid Hoffman

  People, Helping

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• A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

  Scott D. Cook

  Business, Media, Marketing

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• Consistently investigate what gives other people energy. Be the fan that fuels it.

  Darren Rowse

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...

  Brian Solis

  Creating, Investment, Building

  "The Path From A Social Brand To A Social Business" by Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com. May 2, 2012.

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• A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Charity, Dollars, Social

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• I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, Done, Poverty

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• I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Calling, Poverty, Kind

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2015

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• What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  "How We Can Bring About Change" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Healthy, Trying

  Interview with Neha Thirani, www.thedailystar.net. February 24, 2012.

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• Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Motivation, Issues, Culture

  "Why Businesses Need to Reshape Society" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2013.

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• The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Meaningful, Expression, Causes

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• In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Community, World

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• In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Community, Growing, Loyal

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• I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

  Lily Cole

  Social, Used, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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