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.
BILL DRAYTONThe biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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