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.
BILL DRAYTONThe one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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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 our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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