I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.
I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.
Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately.
One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.
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, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.
We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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