Activity Quote by Mancur Olson

“The problem is that organizations are famous for taking people who are happy as individual contributors and turning them into managers or bureaucrats, and…

— Valerie Young

For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the…

— Clay Shirky

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

— Bill Gates

“[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough…

— Clay Shirky

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group…

— Arlo Guthrie

There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play…

— Ravida Din

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those…

— Alan Cranston

Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups…

— James M. Buchanan

When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms…

— Henry Townley Heald

A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

— Maxime Bernier

What role can such philanthropy play in a society like ours? For one, philanthropic capital can go where markets will not go and where…

— Rohini Nilekani

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and…

— David Rockefeller