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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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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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.
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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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