Agents Quote by Marc Benioff

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

— Donna Karan

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

— Bill Gates

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try…

— Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Though easy to define, it is important to understand the significance of philanthropy. I believe it is really a state of mind: where one…

— Shiv Nadar

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the…

— Melinda Gates

In the ideal world, philanthropy should be redundant or at least it should be at the edges, as innovation or risk capital. But it's…

— Rohini Nilekani

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

— Martha Nussbaum

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

— Bill Gates

Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In…

— Jeffrey Skoll

Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action,…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

— Melinda Gates

Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.

— Patrick J. Ryan