Author: Bill Drayton

Quotes

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

- Bill Drayton

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

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

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

- 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

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

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

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

- 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

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

- Bill Drayton

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