Quotes About Impact

Live Aid is up there with anything I've ever done in my life: meeting so many heroes and being part of such a global phenomenon.

My wife Julie and I are driven to make positive and enduring change in our beloved city of Philadelphia, in California, in Haiti, and around the world.

It's hard to be a good philanthropist in China.

My goal is to work diligently to become the top philanthropist in the world.

As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.

It's important to do see the results of your philanthropy while you are alive.

In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

What role can such philanthropy play in a society like ours? For one, philanthropic capital can go where markets will not go and where states often cannot go.

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

Indian philanthropy doesn't take enough risk.

Philip Seymour Hoffman - I just think he's incredible.

Journey are very big in the Philippines.

Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.

I'm a teacher and a philosopher by nature... In the end, I'm trying to teach people to live a better life. And if I can do that on top of entertain, then I leave the world a better place.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.