Top 61 Drayton Quotes
#1. Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late
John Buchanan
#2. Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen ... One can listen better if one sees the whole.
Bill Drayton
#3. Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
Michael Drayton
#5. 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
#6. Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
Bill Drayton
#7. 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.
Bill Drayton
#8. Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
Michael Drayton
#9. What is your personal definition of "good"?
A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.
Bill Drayton
#10. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
Bill Drayton
#11. It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
Bill Drayton
#12. Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
Bill Drayton
#13. It is your virtue, being men, to try;
And it is ours, by virtue to deny.
Michael Drayton
#14. 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.
Bill Drayton
#15. Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
Bill Drayton
#16. The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.
Michael Drayton
#17. The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
Bill Drayton
#18. Here's my advice: The first step to becoming a changemaker (the only secure job going forward) is to give oneself permission, i.e. to ignore - politely, of course - all those who say 'Don't do it
Bill Drayton
#19. 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.
Bill Drayton
#21. What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
Bill Drayton
#22. WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.
Michael Drayton
#23. Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.
Drayton Bird
#24. The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
Bill Drayton
#25. The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
Bill Drayton
#26. Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked.
Drayton Bird
#27. White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.
Bill Drayton
#28. The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
Bill Drayton
#29. To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
Jerome Drayton
#30. Happiness lives
in the tomorrow of now.
Find it
before today fades.
Helen Drayton
#31. So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
Michael Drayton
#32. What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
Bill Drayton
#33. Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point.
Drayton Bird
#34. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
Stephen King
#35. 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.
Bill Drayton
#36. Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
Bill Drayton
#37. O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
Michael Drayton
#38. 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.
Bill Drayton
#39. Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.
Drayton Bird
#40. Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
Bill Drayton
#41. All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
Michael Drayton
#42. We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
Bill Drayton
#44. People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell
Drayton Bird
#45. We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.
Bill Drayton
#46. You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.
Bill Drayton
#47. The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
Bill Drayton
#48. 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.
Bill Drayton
#49. If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution
Bill Drayton
#50. We do not know the future, but we are creating it now. How we align the vision we have for a livable place with intelligent actions is what the future of mankind will be. It is all we can do to perfect ourselves. Nature will determine the rest.
Helen Drayton
#52. It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry
Bill Drayton
#53. 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.
Bill Drayton
#54. The one single factor that determines society's success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
Bill Drayton
#55. An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
Bill Drayton
#56. 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.
Bill Drayton
#57. The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.
Michael Drayton
#58. We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.
Bill Drayton
#59. 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.
Bill Drayton
#60. Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
Bill Drayton
#61. Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
Bill Drayton
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