There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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