Bill Drayton Quotes

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

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.

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

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

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

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

The world needs more social innovations.

… there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

We need more imagination, more innovation and more public financing for projects and programmes that harness the positive energy of young men.

Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.

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.

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.