Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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