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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.

Bill Drayton

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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Business Education Good Powerful Rights
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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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Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
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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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
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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Area Coming Industry Missing
Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
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Anyone Problems Resources Skills Solutions
The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Hands Ideas Powerful
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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
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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Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
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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Diving Fishing Teacher
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Determine Makers Percentages
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World

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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