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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

Bill Drayton

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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Done Pattern People
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
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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Advancement Affected Constitute Execution General Money
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
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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Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Determine Makers Percentages
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
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Becoming Change Combination Global Together Underway
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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