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 DRAYTONIf 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?.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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