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A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.

Ultimately, we want to make it unnecessary to be a B Corp – we want it to be just the norm of how all businesses are run, but that means we have to change the rules of the game and the role of business in society.

— Andrew Kassoy

Co-Founder of Bridgewater Associates & Pioneer in Radical Transparency

Businesses have a tremendous amount of power to have impact through practices and business models that operate ethically, create useful goods and services, create jobs with dignity, and create opportunities in communities that may not have existed before.

— Andrew Kassoy

Co-Founder of Bridgewater Associates & Pioneer in Radical Transparency

Systems change is slow because it requires consensus that there is a system failure to start with, as well as the presence of a viable alternative. This requires a combination of culture shift, behavioral change, and structural change to ultimately change the rules of the game.

— Andrew Kassoy

Co-Founder of Bridgewater Associates & Pioneer in Radical Transparency

The system we've built has been successful at lifting many people out of poverty, and at creating amazing products and technologies, but it's not solving many of the problems we face today – in fact, rules and culture of our economic have created many of those problems.

— Andrew Kassoy

Co-Founder of Bridgewater Associates & Pioneer in Radical Transparency

I tell people to activate their inner honey badger. Even your professor should not be free from criticism.

— Gad Saad

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

You can't build a bridge or an aircraft using postmodernist feminist epistemology.

— Gad Saad

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

You should never sacrifice truth at the altar of social justice- that is what idea pathogens do.

— Gad Saad

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

Postmodernists are intellectual terrorists who fly their planes of bullshit into the edifices of reason.

— Gad Saad

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

It takes intellectuals to come up with really stupid ideas. Unfortunately, these idea pathogens have led us to the abyss of infinite lunacy.

— Gad Saad

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

When I started out, there weren't many women in jewellery, and I hope that by creating a more open-minded approach to creativity and design, that I have been able to make a change on what was a very male dominated world.

— Jade Jagger

I think that's why I've always felt comfortable in the arts where you are creating things that will hopefully be around for a long time and won't be transient.

— Jade Jagger

Jewellery tends to have a much longer life – it can become part of your heritage and have a sentimental value that runs extremely deep, across generations.

— Jade Jagger

There's something intrinsically sensual about jewellery, you wear it on your skin, it's a part of you and it embodies and imbues the personality and lustre of the wearer. There's something about gold and stones in particular which- for me- have a magical element.

— Jade Jagger

In our low moments, music is our therapy, it helps us to cry, to breathe, or gives us the encouragement we need… it's our therapy. In our moments of happiness, music is our celebration… it's extraordinary.

— Ally Brooke

Former Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist

I was born premature, just 1lb 14oz, and my parents were told that survival chances for babies born so premature were low, and that it was likely I would grow up with disabilities if I survived. Praise God I survived, and I'm here today to live out my dreams.

— Ally Brooke

Former Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist

Even though we'd achieved so much success, going solo felt like a clean slate that I could pursue on my own. I'm travelling the world, making music from my heart, making the videos of my dreams and working with a team who believe in me. It's been liberating!

— Ally Brooke

Former Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist