“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.” BelieveNextSocialWaitingGenerationsStudentsEntrepreneurPartnersClassroomTomsNext GenerationMilestoneSkype Author:Blake Mycoskie
“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.” PeopleHomeCareSocialPoorPayClassMiddleResourcesDignityEntrepreneurPatientRateProfitMiddle ClassTreatmentCitizenshipConsumedNursingDefaultAntithesisMedicaidNursing HomeBilling Author:Robert Kuttner
“...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.” GovernmentOrderGivenSocialClassImpossibleEconomicCenturySecurityHatredEntrepreneurInvestingBlowViolentContractsSocial SecurityArbitraryNineteenth CenturyDisturbanceCombiningRenderingContinuanceEconomic Order Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe
“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.” IdeasProblemSocialSimpleDealsNeededFitIndiaEntrepreneurParadigmSimple Ideas Author:Bill Drayton
“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.” WorldHelpingSocialCommunityEntrepreneurManageAllies Author:Bill Drayton
“The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.” GovernmentSocialEntrepreneur Author:Bill Drayton