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 DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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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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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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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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