To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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