The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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