John Paul DeJoria Quotes

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

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

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

My only regret about money is that I don't have more to give away.

It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how to give, what to do.

I wish people would go and just read about this man's life - about David Koch's life... Of the literally hundreds of millions of dollars that he has given to a variety of different hospitals.

I did commit to giving my first billion away.

What's success all about? What's philanthropy all about? Let's think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.