J. B. Pritzker Quotes

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

The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.

I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously.

Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.

Actors are very generous.

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

There are many philanthropists who we admire and have learned a great deal from, including mentors like Bill and Melinda Gates and peers like Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz.

I already do some charity, but I don't necessarily talk about it. That doesn't mean I don't do it.

I would like my celebrity to serve charity purposes, and to help people less well off.

My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

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

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.