Rachel Dratch's Quotes

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

When I was little, we used to have Atari.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

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

Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

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.

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.

White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.