42 Quotes by Bill Drayton

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.