The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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 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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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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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