Bill Drayton Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Growing Up, Health, People

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• Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. 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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  Wall, Team, Organization

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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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  Entrepreneur, Community, Allies

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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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  Advancement, Execution, Welfare

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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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  Powerful, Business, Rights

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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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  Children, Impact, Empathy

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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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  Successful, Organization, Working Together

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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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  Ideas, Sides, My Family

  "GOOD Q&A: Social Entrepreneur Bill Drayton On His White House Years". GOOD Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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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. 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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  Powerful, Thinking, Rights

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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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  Practice, People, Empathy

  "What Does It Take To Tip A System?". www.forbes.com. April 09, 2013.

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• The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

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  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Tests

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• Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

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  Repetition, Begets

  "Bill Drayton’s Five Trends for Social Entrepreneurs" by Eli Malinsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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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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  Simple, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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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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  Powerful, Hands, Ideas

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