My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

I'll get involved in philanthropy.

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.

Philanthropy is activism.

Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.

Philanthropy is my job.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined.

There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like "What did you do to yourself?" I was so embarrassed.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.

We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, because it was costing millions of pounds to do a national championship and ok, that might be ok when you're doing an international championship, but not for a national one.

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the bible.

I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.