Quotes About Philanthropists

#1. The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.

Jake Barton

#2. The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Bill Gates

#3. To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

John Glenn

#4. Societies accomplished important goals that still elude politicians, specialists in public policy, social reformers, and philanthropists. They successfully created vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor that are now almost entirely absent in many atomistic inner cities.

David T. Beito

#5. My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#6. Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142)

Jacqueline Novogratz

#7. Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

Herman Melville

#8. Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Marvin Olasky

#9. It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

#10. Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders on luxury goods.

Chen Guangbiao

#12. I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.

Bernard Goldberg

#13. There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#14. Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

Noreena Hertz

#15. Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

John Sergeant Wise

#16. Statesmen, men of science, philanthropists, the acknowledged benefactors of their race, might pass away, and yet not leave the void which will be caused by the death of Charles Dickens.

The London Times

#17. 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

#18. I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#19. Secondly, the Philanthropists had not the good temper of the Pugilists, and used worse language.

Charles Dickens

#20. Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.

Sydney Pollack

#21. As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

Steven Levitt

#22. There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#23. I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

Andrew Forrest

#24. If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#25. Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate.

Leila Janah

#26. More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

Robert Breault

#27. The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.

Arpad Busson

#28. The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Bill Gates

#30. My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#31. As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#32. Philanthropists themselves are often the first to admit that their philanthropy is aimed at preserving rather than redistributing wealth.

Linsey McGoey

#33. Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

Noreena Hertz

#34. The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#35. He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas William Jerrold

#36. 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

#37. Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

Dasha Zhukova

#38. Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson