An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTONAn entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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