20th-century Philanthropist Quotes

Oprah Winfrey

George Soros

David Rockefeller

Paul Allen

Thom Yorke

Carlos Slim Helú

Ted Turner

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Business is globalizing so fast that it has led to the often quoted 'clash of civilizations'. People simply have not had time to get to know and understand people of other cultures sufficiently to live and work in harmony.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead

To have simple structures and organizations with minimal hierarchical levels, with human development and in house training of executive functions. To have flexibility and speed in making decisions. Operating with the advantages of the small business, which are what comprise big businesses.

Carlos Slim Helú

There's a big difference between education and knowledge. The moment that we don't invest in educating Jewish children according to the roots that were the basis of our education for thousands of years, we are knowledge-givers rather than educators.

You have to learn all the big ideas in the key disciplines in a way that they're in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. If you do that, I solemnly promise you that one day you'll be walking down the street and you'll look to your right and left and you'll think "my heavenly days, I'm now one of the few competent people in my whole age cohort." If you don't do it, many of the brightest of you will live in the middle ranks or in the shallows.

I rise today to commemorate one of the most fateful days in the history of the State of Colorado, the day the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant outside of Boulder nearly became America's own Chernobyl, some 30 years before that terrible accident in the Ukraine.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Rockefeller

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

Sathya Sai Baba

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.

Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.

"My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel — towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

If you don't give your child a middle name, how are they ever to know when you are cross with them?

This is a town that doesn't just want you to fail, it wants you to die.

I'm rich. I'm warmhearted. I'm wonderful. How many frames of film are left in the camera?

My father's simple message - it's not an anti-Muslim message, it's [an] anti-terror message, you know, we have ISIS and they're running in rampant around the world and we have to do something about it.

Whereas the entire meaning of the Quran must easily be interpreted by the lives of Muslims, Islam's followers abandoned its essence.

Abdul Sattar Edhi