Bill Drayton Quotes

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

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

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

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

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

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

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

White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

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.

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

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

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

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

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

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

The one single factor that determines society's success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.