An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTONIf everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun 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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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