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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.

Bill Drayton

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
BILL DRAYTON

Ideas My Family Sides
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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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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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Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
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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Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
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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Diving Fishing Teacher
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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Business Education Good Powerful Rights
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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Growing Health Pattern People Up
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
BILL DRAYTON

Break Chain Everyone Mental

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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