We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
BILL DRAYTONAll 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
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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.
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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