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 DRAYTONLook 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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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