We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
BILL DRAYTONWhat is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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 one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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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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