Bill Drayton Quotes
- 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…
- 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
- All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
- 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…
- The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
- 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
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 ...…
- 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…
- We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
- The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
- 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…
- There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
- What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
- Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.
- The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
- 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.
- Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.