“Social
entrepreneurship needs to become a mass activity, not just the domain of inspirational
mavericks ... Entrepreneurship usually comes from teams, not heroic individuals.
Social entrepreneurs thrive on interdependence, learning and borrowing resources
from the public and private sectors.”
-- Charles Leadbeater
"Microloans
enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship."
-- Pierre Omidyar
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A
social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one
of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds
live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of
young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an
historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.
-- Eboo Patel |  |
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"Fair
Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps
third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational
and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly
to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local
capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully
building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years."
~ Paul Rice |
"The entrepreneur
shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity
and greater yield."
-- Jean-Baptiste Say
"the
function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production...
by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility
for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening
up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing
an industry and so on."
-- Joseph Schumpeter
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"The
world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship
and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort."
~ Klaus
Schwab |
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Social
entrepreneurs come from all levels of society and from communities in nearly every
country of the world. They all share the same underlying drive and passion to
see their ideas through. Many of them have had a huge effect on the world, yet
most people have not even heard of them – a trend we hope to change!
-- Jeffrey
Skoll a little
bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of
a social entrepreneur
-- Jeffrey
Skoll |  |
Not everyone can
be Gandhi, but each of us has the power to make sure our own lives count – and
it’s those millions of lives that will ultimately build a better world.
--
Jeffrey Skoll
The
developed world has a vast, under-utilized asset that is not being leveraged to
its best advantage: idealistic people who want to make the world a better place.
For most of a century, idealistic people have been encouraged to use anger, protest,
lobbying, and legal action in order to make the world a better place. While most
certainly some of these behaviors and activities were necessary, we have reached
the point at which the social benefit of such behaviors is decreasing. We have
reached the point at which creation, rather than attack, ought to be the first
obligation of reformers. The social entrepreneurship movement is the first tip
of this iceberg. We want to create a world in which all idealists realize that
the creation of new enterprises is the most powerful way to make positive change
in the world. If all the energy that is currently invested in zero-sum political
conflict was gradually transferred to the committed creation of sustainable enterprises,
the cumulative impact on behalf of the good would be extraordinary.
-- Michael
Strong
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“Entrepreneurs
are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the
line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
-- Victoria
Woodhull
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