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.
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?.
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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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The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
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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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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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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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