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.
BILL DRAYTONAnd 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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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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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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