Bill Drayton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.”
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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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“We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.”
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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 does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it you'll find an answer.”
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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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“Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.”
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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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“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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“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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“We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.”
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“Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.”
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“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.”
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“An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.”
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“Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.”
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“The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.”
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“It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry”
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“What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.”
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“In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.”
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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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“There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur”
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“If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution”
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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.”
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“How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.”
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“It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.”
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“Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.”
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“Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. 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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