He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Michael Porter said that “corporations can use philanthropy to improve their competitive context” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body… — Saadi Copy Share Image
So many rich people, when they get into philanthropy, they have one thing they like, or several things they focus on. They… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
A lot of people making a lot of money, billion, billions of dollars accumulating. Why are they coming for, finally, for philanthropy?… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations… — Ravida Din Copy Share Image
Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Work isn't really work for me. I hate to tell you this, but I've never liked the weekend in my life. I… — John Kluge Copy Share Image
I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
“It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Though easy to define, it is important to understand the significance of philanthropy. I believe it is really a state of mind:… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The vineyards of philanthropy are pleasant places, and I would hope good men and women will be drawn there… If these vineyards… — Harold J. Seymour Copy Share Image
I was born to Haitian parents, and the idea of giving back is really just a part of our culture. So, I… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
When we started out, I kept wondering, what are the rules of philanthropy? And it turns out that there are rules for… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes… — Henry Townley Heald Copy Share Image
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to… — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image