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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.

Bill Drayton

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
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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Hands Ideas Powerful
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Ideas My Family Sides
The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
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Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working
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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Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
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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Big Idea Powerful Rights Thinking
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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Advancement Affected Constitute Execution General Money
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Determine Makers Percentages
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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Business Entrepreneur Ideas Paradigm Simple

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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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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