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 DRAYTONSocial 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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.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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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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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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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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