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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.

Bill Drayton

We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Finance Foundation Nonsense
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
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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Business Education Good Powerful Rights
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.
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Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
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
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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Allies Community Entrepreneur Reading Social
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Determine Makers Percentages
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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Big Idea Powerful Rights Thinking
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
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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Growing Health Pattern People Up

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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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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