"I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment……" — George Kaiser
"I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck."
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10 Quotes by George Kaiser
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Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special…
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If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a…
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In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.
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During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
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Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
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I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.
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If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
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Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one…
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Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact…
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