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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

To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
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
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 job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
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
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
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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Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
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
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
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
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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Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working
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

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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