"Designers should set the goal for themselves that their clothing pieces should be passed down to the next generation."
Natalia Allen,
Fashion designer
"The Young Global Leaders impress, because they use their skills, intelligence and knowledge to change the world for the better."
Martin Wittig,
CEO Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
"Leadership can be based on many different principles ­ - fear, hierarchy or reward, to name but a few. But the great leaders of the world have chosen a different approach."
Pekka Himanen
a Principal Scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
"The challenges faced by a globalized world have become more involved in that they demand socially, ecologically and economically sustainable answers."
Beatrix Morath,
Senior Partner at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Bryant's mission is the systematic development of the American dream. He wants to heal the wounds of capitalism with the tools of capitalism.
John Hope Bryant,
Entrepreneur and businessman
"If you pursue a goal that may be beyond your personal limits­ - making it more of a dream - ­ you must do everything to achieve this goal."
Christian Wenk,
Duathlete, triathlete and doctor
"I visit the barrios, the poor areas of Caracas and other cities, as often as possible with my team and volunteers"
María Corina Machado,
Managing Director of Asociación Civil Súmate
"We suddenly have a huge need for journalists, yet we have no tradition of journalistic training."
Amir Jahangir,
Journalist and media consultant
"I want to work with young people, and make sure that every newborn child has full access to health care and universal education."
Ganhuyag Hutagt,
Cofounder of XacBank of Mongolia
"My hope would be that a sensory Internet brings us closer together."
Adrian David Cheok,
Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab at the Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDM) in Singapore
"People want electric cars on the road, and they want to literally be part of a new movement."
Shai Agassi,
Chief Executive Officer of Better Place
"How can the world be changed for the better?"
Jennifer Corriero,
Environmental scientist
"We try to concentrate on what we as people have in common and not on what separates us."
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

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