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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

Bill Drayton

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
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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Done Pattern People
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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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Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
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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Becoming Change Combination Global Together Underway
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
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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Growing Health Pattern People Up
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
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
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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Allies Community Entrepreneur Reading Social
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
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
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 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
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

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