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?.
BILL DRAYTONWe 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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 new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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 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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