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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 Drayton

In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
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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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
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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Hands Ideas Powerful
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
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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Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Finance Foundation Nonsense
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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Business Entrepreneur Ideas Paradigm Simple
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.
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Area Coming Industry Missing
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
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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Done Pattern People
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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Allies Community Entrepreneur Reading Social
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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Diving Fishing Teacher
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.
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Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World

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.

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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.

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