Bill Drayton Quotes

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

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

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

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

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

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

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

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

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

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

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

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

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 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. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

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.

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

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

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 everyone tells us we cannot.

What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

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

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.

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

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

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