David Bornstein Quotes

• What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.

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  Giving Up, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action.

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  Change, Decision, Vision

  David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.

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  Moving, Play, Ideas

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• Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .

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  Self, Agriculture, Abuse

  David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.156, Oxford University Press

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• According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.

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  Hands, Two, Yield

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.

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  Education, Powerful, Communication

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• The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.

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  Freedom, Thinking, People

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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