Quotes About Philanthropy

I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

Jimmy Carr is a very nice man who works incredibly hard and has donated loads of money to good causes. He's done absolutely nothing illegal.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.