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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.
True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.
It's important to do see the results of your philanthropy while you are alive.
Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.
Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.
I have a philanthropy advisor, Hari Menon, who was earlier at the Gates Foundation.
Producing is a little bit in my blood. Philanthropy also is a very important for me.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
As a tither you automatically become solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented.
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.
There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.
Madam Walker's legacy lives in her philanthropy as well as in an amazing line of hair care products.
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
Parsee culture is definitely one of strong business acumen, high ethics, and an element of philanthropy.
My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.
I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
I'm driven by my passion - my family, my philanthropy, and the New England Patriots winning. That's my life.
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.
Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.
In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
It's just not our style to put our names on the philanthropy we've done. It's not in the Jewish tradition of tzedakah.
All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.
I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.