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Expectation is the root of all heartache.

William Shakespeare

If you look through history all the big changes in society have been started by people at the grassroots level. No system change can come without pressure from large groups of individuals. 

Greta Thunberg

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

Benjamin Franklin

We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank

I think whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight. 

Elon Musk, Entrepreneur

We must create more effective interfaces with innovations across the whole of society; rethink how policies are designed; change how intellectual property regimes are governed; and use R&D to distribute intelligence across academia, government, business and civil society. This means restoring public purpose in policies so that they are aimed at creating tangible benefits for citizens and setting goals that matter to people–driven by public-interest considerations rather than profit.

Mariana Mazzucato, Economist

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are even-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

Jerome F. Lederer, NASA

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 

Marie Curie, Nobel Prize Winner

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Randy Pausch, Computer Scientist

Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.

Mary Barra, General Motors

In times of change the greater danger is to act with yesterday’s logic.

Peter Drucker, Economist

If you attack the problem right, you’ll get the answer.

Katherine Johnson, Mathematician

It is not the strongest species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. 

Charles Darwin

I see tech as… a force that is changing pretty much all parts of our society.

Susan Wojcicki, YouTube

It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.

Anders Dahlyig, IKEA

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success.

Michael Porter, Economist

In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees’ personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.

Jeroen van der Veer, Shell

Companies that are breaking the mold are moving beyond corporate social responsibility to social innovation. These companies are the vanguard of the new paradigm.

Rosabeth Moss Kantner, Harvard Business Review