If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
BILL DRAYTONSocial entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
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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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The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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