Asia Society award ceremony

I recently attended the Asia Society Award dinner honoring Riaz Siddiqi for distinguished achievement in business and philanthropy at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Houston. Riaz is such an incredible person and I really enjoyed his speech. He has great ideas on how business and society should function together. Here are some quotes from his acceptance speech.

"I believe the quality of Humility is the essential ingredient of sustainable progress as individuals and as nations. Humility once acknowledged and internalized, opens one to the possibilities of collaboration. Collaboration as a model of human interaction leads to win win solutions, as opposed to win lose or zero sum propositions."

"...we have the evolving field of social enterpreneurship in which the one supreme metric, return of and return on capital, is supplemented by a concomitant and equally important metric and that is social development."