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.
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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