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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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  The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

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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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  What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.

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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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  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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  To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

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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 biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.

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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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  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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  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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  The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.

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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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  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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  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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