Bill Drayton Quotes

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

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.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

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.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

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.

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.

In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.