Bill Drayton
BILL DRAYTON
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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