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 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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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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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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