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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution

Bill Drayton

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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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  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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  An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.

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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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  Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

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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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  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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  Clearly, there’s some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What’s missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area.

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