Billions Quote by Michael Porter

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

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

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

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 not about money...its about feeling the pain of others and caring enough about their needs to help.”

— Timothy Pina

Charitable giving is a huge sector in the United States. It amounts to $350 billion a year. And yet, I can't help feeling that…

— Peter Singer

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when…

— Peter Diamandis

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

— Bill Gates

Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there.…

— Dustin Moskovitz

Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment,…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

— Martin Luther King, Jr