He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
Do we live for or do we live off philanthropy?
Philanthropy should be voluntary.
Philanthropist, n. : A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
Don't just put it off and think about it!
In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.
Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.
My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Politics is social work with power.
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.
True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?