Quotes About Impact

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.

Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.

Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.

Making money and making the world a better place are not contrary to one another.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

I'm 31 years old and can't complain about the money I make and the smiles I can create on people's faces.

I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.