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 DRAYTONSocial 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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 most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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 reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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