You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
India's connection with philanthropy didn't begin with western influences. The connection with philanthropy is age-old and ingrained in our value systems. — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for… — Dan O'Neill Copy Share Image
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young… — Serinda Swan 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“The moral which presents itself to my reflections, as drawn from Hollingsworth's character and errors, is simply this, that, admitting what is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads,… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within… — Teresa Odendahl Copy Share Image
Private philanthropy is the direct expression of the great Christian principle of the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule. Private philanthropy… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
As a general rule, the only way people pay $7,500 a table for club fights is when a significant portion of the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
“You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it...take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her… — Danell Lynn Copy Share Image
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket...” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent? — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image