Society

You may become rich, engage in philanthropy and help a million people but the only way you can help a billion people is by building a profitable business. If you can't make a profit, you can't help a billion people – so go make a profit!

Entrepreneur & Founder of Moon Express, Infosys Technologies Co-Founder

What I've learned about tech is that it's cold and robotic; you don't know any of the people who make the stuff you live on.

Grammy-winning rapper, producer, and member of The Black Eyed Peas

Mental health conditions are extraordinarily common, conservatively 1 in 4 of us will suffer from one or more in our lifetime, and I defy you to find someone who hasn't seen the impact firsthand.

I see it as my moral obligation in this world to help these people unlock their potential so they can start working on humanity's grand challenges.

By 2025, we're going to see 40-50% of all tech entrepreneurs being women, and that's good news.

From the data I've collected, about 2% of humanity is qualified to be an entrepreneur. If we got to a point where the full 2% pursued entrepreneurship as a viable way to live their lives? The amount of problems we would solve in human-society would be astounding.

True success in life can only be gauged by something which is priceless; how much love you have in your life – I am truly fortunate to be surrounded by extremely loving and fun family and friends and nothing beats spending time with the people I love.

Founder of Virgin Group & Billionaire Entrepreneur & Adventurer

We must fundamentally change how we see children - not as objects of charity, but as individuals with rights, with potential, with the power to transform our world.

Founder of Lumos, global children's rights and deinstitutionalization advocate

Every child deserves the chance to survive and thrive, to learn and be protected from harm. When we invest in children, we invest in our collective future.

President and CEO of Save the Children International

The Convention on the Rights of the Child is not just a document - it's a promise we made to every child on this planet that they matter, that their voices count.

UN expert on child rights and protection, former Swiss judge

Children are the future of humanity. If we cannot protect our children, if we cannot ensure their rights, their education, their protection from exploitation, then we are failing humanity itself.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Child Rights Activist Against Child Labor

It was visionaries with a quest for achievement who made Apollo happen, and it seems to me that now? Our sense and spirit of adventure boils down to what we can afford, and not what we can learn or achieve by doing something.

Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11; Second Person to Walk on Moon

We are one big, beautiful, dysfunctional and incredible family, tearing itself apart over something as inconsequential as our hue.

Racism, like sexism and any other form of discrimination, is an utterly futile exercise… nobody benefits. Societies are better for diversity in all forms, and time and time again we've seen that the more homogenous people become, the less they are able to flourish.

For the first time in over 20 years, I feel brown… I find myself being extra careful in terms of how I dress, where I go, how I speak, what I carry and how I behave; not to conform to any new social norms- but rather, so that people don't mistake me for a terrorist.

I assumed this was just a fact of life in the UK, but because I saw the warmth of some people's welcome in the business community in particular, I overlooked it…