Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
BILL DRAYTONTo break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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 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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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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