The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
BILL DRAYTONPublic service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
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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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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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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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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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Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
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Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
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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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Social 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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Clearly, there’s some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What’s missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area.
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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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