Quotes About Philanthropy

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

You shouldn't just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one's time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

DOUBLE DEATH FOR THE KIND PHILANTHROPISTS

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.

Romero was like St. Vincent de Paul—a mass of poor people always followed him around. Of course, with his way of thinking, he always got the rich people to pay alms so that he could give them to the poor. That way the poor could have some relief for their problems and the rich could relieve their consciences.48

Generosity generates income. This works whether you are selling paintings or innovation or a service. Linus

It is a great happiness to be able to give.

the foremost Indian research institution under the British empire, the Indian Institute of Science, was endowed by the legendary Jamsetji Tata, not by any British philanthropist, let alone by the colonial government.

Any do-gooder can save one life or a dozen by spending x dollars, but that doesn't demonstrate anything unless you've got x dollars multiplied by the total number of lives that need saving. Stopping poverty one victim at a time is like mowing a lawn one blade at a time. The problem grows faster than the cure can be applied, the only people who profit are the agencies who claim to be cutting grass while they're actually applying fertilizer.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

He gives before he is asked.