Dan Pallotta Quotes

#1. You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

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#2. People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

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#3. Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

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#4. We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

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#5. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

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#6. Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

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#7. I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

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#8. It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

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#9. Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

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#10. Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

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#11. When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

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#12. And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

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#13. You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

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#14. Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

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#15. It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

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