To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
BILL DRAYTONInstead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
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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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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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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?.
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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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