42 Quotes by Bill Drayton

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.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

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.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

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

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

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.

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

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.