black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bill Drayton

The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
BILL DRAYTON

Hands Ideas Powerful
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
BILL DRAYTON

Growing Health Pattern People Up
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 DRAYTON

Advancement Affected Constitute Execution General Money
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTON

Imagine Makers World
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Hands Ideas Powerful
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Area Coming Industry Missing
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
BILL DRAYTON

Ideas My Family Sides
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTON

Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTON

Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Becoming Change Combination Global Together Underway
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
BILL DRAYTON

Opportunity Organization Team
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
BILL DRAYTON

Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
BILL DRAYTON

Entrepreneur Government Social

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Drayton Quotes