Shiv Nadar 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.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

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.

Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

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.

At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

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

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

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.

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

I love to give money away. I don't know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

It was really phenomenal [Warren Buffett donation]. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.

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.

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.

I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I'll continue to grow my wealth as much as possible so that the amount I bequeath to charities and worthy causes can be as substantial as possible.

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

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

I believe in two things: One, Andrew Carnegie said, 'He who dies with wealth dies in shame.' And someone once said, 'He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.'

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

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

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

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.