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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.

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
What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
BILL DRAYTON

Hands Ideas Powerful
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
BILL DRAYTON

Empathy Literacy Needs
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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Children Empathy Impact
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
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
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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Empathy Skills Understanding
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.
BILL DRAYTON

Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
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
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

Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
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
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?.
BILL DRAYTON

Advancement Affected Constitute Execution General Money
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTON

Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful

The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.

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