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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.

Bill Drayton

In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Hands Ideas Powerful
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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Anyone Problems Resources Skills Solutions
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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Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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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Empathy Skills Understanding
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
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
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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
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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Business Entrepreneur Ideas Paradigm Simple
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
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

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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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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