Quotes About Philanthropy

By 1859, when he was twenty, his charitable giving surpassed the 10 percent mark.

Rockefeller and Gates allowed beneficiaries to announce the receipt of gifts.

I made up my mind that, if I could manage it, some day I would give away crisp bills, too.

Rockefeller, who, along with his son, reserved the right to designate the use of two-thirds of the money given.

Breathtakingly generous in his philanthropy, Rockefeller could also be stingy—appallingly so.

Articles began to appear with titles like "The Human Side of John D. Rockefeller," as if its existence wasn't taken for granted.

One biographer has gone so far as to say of Rockefeller, "He was the best employer of his time, instituting hospitalization and retirement pensions.

Rockefeller devoted a great deal of his spare time to religion.

As early as 1882, he lamented to the Reverend Edward Judson that he was swamped by charitable appeals, many from Baptist causes.

For such a perfectionist, giving money away was fraught with far more nervous tension than making it.

Junior touted such philanthropies as the best way to advance the family's favorite causes.

Rockefeller established various taboos on the course, including that no business or charitable bequests should ever be discussed.

he was frustrated that he couldn't give money away quickly enough to keep pace with his mounting income.

Much of this last gift was routed to the University of Chicago.

During Peabody's last years, the scope of his charity grew dazzling. He endowed a natural history museum at Yale University, an archaeology and ethnology museum at Harvard, and an educational fund for emancipated southern blacks. For this last, he handed over a $1-million batch of defaulted Mississippi and

Rockefeller desperately needed intelligent assistance in donating his money at a time when he could not draw on a profession of philanthropic experts.

Having known many rich people, Gates was impressed that Rockefeller had no private yachts or railroad cars.

He preferred to give to religious, cultural, and educational causes, not to social welfare agencies.

To give away the Rockefeller fortune with a clear conscience, he had to convince himself that it had been earned fairly.

Led by Gates, these subordinates guaranteed that the Rockefeller millions were donated or invested scrupulously.

John D. retained his mystic faith that God had given him money for mankind's benefit.

he only hoped his son would help as many people in his lifetime as Pierpont had in his.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

The money you give away while you're alive is worth twice what you leave when you die.