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.
BILL DRAYTONThe one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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 teach empathy as we do literacy.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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