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.
BILL DRAYTONThe biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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