The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
BILL DRAYTONImagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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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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