An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTONWhat is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.
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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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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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The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
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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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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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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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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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Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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