Pallotta Quotes

#1. Loving you, Kellan, is so easy, it's effortless."
His smile matched mine, then I frowned and sighed "Trusting you ... that's the hard part

S.C. Stephens

#2. In this world you will never lose if you use the power of love to win.

Debasish Mridha

#3. 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.

Dan Pallotta

#4. 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.

Dan Pallotta

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

Dan Pallotta

#6. 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.

Dan Pallotta

#7. What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

E. V. Lucas

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

Dan Pallotta

#9. Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

Allen Lacy

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

Dan Pallotta

#11. To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

William Shakespeare

#12. Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

Dan Pallotta

#14. It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and be grateful for that which you receive. Don't become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.

Brenda Shoshanna

#15. 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.

Dan Pallotta

#16. 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.

Dan Pallotta

#17. 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.

Dan Pallotta

#18. When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Paul Mellon

#19. I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

Penn Jillette

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

Dan Pallotta

#21. I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

Scott Caan

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

Dan Pallotta

#23. 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.

Dan Pallotta

#24. I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.

Gerry Harvey

#25. If you want to write a novel about our world now, you'd better write science fiction, or you will be doing some kind of inadvertent nostalgia piece; you will lack depth, miss the point, and remain confused.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

Dan Pallotta

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

Dan Pallotta