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.
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.
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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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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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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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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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Clearly, there’s some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What’s missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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