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 DRAYTONOrganizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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 one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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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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