Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There may be nothing in the world so dangerous as a wealthy woman with good intentions.” — Lloyd Mullins Copy Share Image
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service. — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great… — Sam Simon Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid?… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not.… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow,… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
In the ideal world, philanthropy should be redundant or at least it should be at the edges, as innovation or risk capital.… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
“The next speaker, Dr. Joseph Bonds, a little rat-faced Negro with protruding teeth stained by countless plugs of chewing tobacco and wearing… — George S. Schuyler Copy Share Image
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Happy National Philanthropy Day! Do a good deed today and make the lives of others better. Things you can do(if you can… — Kambiz Mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth. — Jerold Panas Copy Share Image
Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights. — George Burns Copy Share Image
Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When you are the head of any philanthropy organization, what you learn is empathy, how to listen and be responsive to people's… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Producing is a little bit in my blood. Philanthropy also is a very important for me. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy. — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image