Quotes About Philanthropy

The Clinton foundation has done a lot of good in the world.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

To me, giving back is so important. It makes others feel good which then in return makes me feel good.

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.