Explore Quotes by Bill Drayton

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.

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.

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.

What is your personal definition of "good"? _x000D__x000D_A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

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 of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.

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

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

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun 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 starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

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

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

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 lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

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.