Author: Bill Drayton

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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.

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.

- Bill Drayton

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

- Bill Drayton

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

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

- Bill Drayton

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

- Bill Drayton

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

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

- Bill Drayton

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

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

- Bill Drayton

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

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

- Bill Drayton

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

- Bill Drayton

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

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

- Bill Drayton

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