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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.

Bill Drayton

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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Diving Fishing Teacher
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Determine Makers Percentages
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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Children Empathy Impact
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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Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
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Done Pattern People
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
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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Advancement Affected Constitute Execution General Money
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
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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Change Entrepreneur Exist Flexible Opportunities Requires
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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Area Coming Industry Missing
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Ideas My Family Sides
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way

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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