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Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
Bill Drayton
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The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
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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.
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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.
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We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
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Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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