Big problem Quote by Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

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

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

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

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

— Marc Benioff

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play…

— Bill Gates

There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected…

— Charlie Rose

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

So many rich people, when they get into philanthropy, they have one thing they like, or several things they focus on. They pick a…

— David Fahrenthold

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

— Bill Gates

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