Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
BILL DRAYTONWhat is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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