Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
BILL DRAYTONWhat is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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