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.
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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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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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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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