Quotes from Dan Pallotta

And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.