Bill Drayton quotes

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change. (Bill Drayton)

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Bill Drayton

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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We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

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

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Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

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The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

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The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends. (Bill Drayton)

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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Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

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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.

Bill Drayton

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Occupation: American Businessman
Born: 1943
Quotes count: 14

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