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William "Bill" Drayton (born in New York City, USA), is a social entrepreneur. Drayton was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders in 2005. He is responsible for the rise of the phrase "social entrepreneur",[citation needed] a concept first found in print in 1972.

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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

Determine, Determines, Factor, Makers, Percentages, Societys

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.

Amazing Opportunities, Colleagues, Focus, Leadership, Lose, Opportunity

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

Big, Business, Combination, Idea, Powerful, Rights

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.

Greatest, Necessary, Organization, Rapidly, Team, Wall

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

Embody, Entrepreneur, Existing, Vision, Way, Ways

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Empathy, Literacy, Needs, Teach

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.

Defined, Organization, Repetition, Successful, Working Together

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

Fish, Fishing, Giving, Industry, Teacher

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.

Done, Millions, Patterns, People

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

Brings, Change, Entrepreneur, Pattern, Patterns

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

Allies, Build, Community, Entrepreneur, Lead

What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.

Happen, Powerful, Rights, Spread, Thinking

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

Change, Crazy, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Job, Jobs

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Entrepreneur, Jobs, Provide, Society, Way, Ways

The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

Big, Hands, Ideas, Powerful, World

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Begets, Change, Reinforces, Repetition

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

Finance, Foundation, Legal, Nonsense, Structure

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Government, Governments, Social

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

Entrepreneur, Idea, Ideas, Possessed, Social, Tests

We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

Finance, Financial, Opportunity, Return, Thinking, Zero

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