Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
BILL DRAYTONAn entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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 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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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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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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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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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