An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTONWe need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.
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Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful. That’s just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.
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What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
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