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" An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change. "
Pattern
Change
Entrepreneur
" Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition. "
Begets
Repetition
Much
" Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision. "
Always
Vision
Step
" Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society. "
Be Happy
People
Society
" Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! "
You
Change
Finance
" 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. "
Revolution
Together
Work
" 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. "
World
Business
Alone
" Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker. "
Everyone
Change
World
" 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. "
America
People
Reality
" It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. "
Good
Powerful
Entrepreneur
" 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. "
Changes
People
Style
" 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. "
Together
Rules
Changes
" Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family. "
Ideas
Service
Theme
" The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world. "
Change
Life
Purpose
" The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends. "
Best
Social
Governments
" We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize. "
Realize
More
Parents
" We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. "
Teach
Literacy
Empathy
" 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. "
Business
You
Simple
" 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. "
Confidence
High School
School
" 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. "
Problems
You
Looking
" White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House. "
Good Person
White
Character
" You can't be a change-maker by reading a book. "
Reading
You
Book
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