The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
BILL DRAYTONEvery child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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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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