42 Quotes by Bill Drayton

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.

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.

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.

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