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.
BILL DRAYTONIf 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?.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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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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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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