If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
BILL DRAYTONEvery child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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