black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Bill Drayton

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.
BILL DRAYTON

Anyone Problems Resources Skills Solutions
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Area Coming Industry Missing
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Diving Fishing Teacher
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Allies Community Entrepreneur Reading Social
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
BILL DRAYTON

Opportunity Thinking Zero
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
BILL DRAYTON

Opportunity Organization Team
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
BILL DRAYTON

Empathy Literacy Needs
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTON

Change Entrepreneur Pattern
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
BILL DRAYTON

Growing Health Pattern People Up
Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
BILL DRAYTON

Children Empathy Impact
And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
BILL DRAYTON

Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
BILL DRAYTON

Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
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 DRAYTON

Empathy Skills Understanding
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTON

Imagine Makers World

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Drayton Quotes