Philanthropy Quotes - Page 13

• I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.

  Edward Norton

  Ambition, Fundraising, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

  Steve Jobs

  Order, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with David Sheff, www.scribd.com. February 1, 1985.

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• ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot

  Distance, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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• I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

  Donald Bren

  Satisfaction

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• The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Two, Greed

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• The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

  Tony Blair

  Determination, Successful, Giving Money

  "Treasury reveals how little tax the super-rich pay" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Mean, Thinking, Creating

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• Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make things better for everyone - voluntarily, without being required to do it by the government, and for others, without private gain for ourselves.

  Robert L. Payton

  Government, People, Gains

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• I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

  Marc Benioff

  Philosophy, Successful, Winning

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

  Bill Gates

  America, Land, Long

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• You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

  Abraham Flexner

  True Friend, Meals, Lasts

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• Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!

  Bill Gates

  Friday, Monday, Tuesday

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• Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Publicity, Donate

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• The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

  George Eastman

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.

  Peter Buffett

  Hands, Leader, Important

  "The Charitable-Industrial Complex" by Peter Buffett, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now, upon me the lowly one, O God and Master, Lord of mercy, Ruler of all and All-powerful One, hearken to my prayer, and fulfill my entreaties in praise.

  Marina of Aguas Santas

  Prayer, Powerful, Humility

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• It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

  Felix Dennis

  Pay, Difficult, Charitable

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• I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Accountability, Lord, Character Education

  Benjamin Franklin (19??). “The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin”

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• Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

  Euripides

  Judging, Tree, Judgement

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• The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Games, Ease

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

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• Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

  Ernest Renan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Believe

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• I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

  Ken Blanchard

  Life, Believe, Blessing

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  Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

  Barbara Jordan

  Education, Inspirational Life, Holiday

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sacrifice, Littles, Little Things

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• I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Ambition, Long

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2064, e-artnow

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