What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
BILL DRAYTONThe job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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