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.
BILL DRAYTONWhat is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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 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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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