Erin O'Connor Quotes

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'

It is no accident that our business, The University of Phoenix, is one of the top 50 community-minded companies in America. My father and I are strong believers in the concept of community.

Twelve hundred people died last week in Darfur. Their lives are just as important is yours and mine. The Foley story is a big story but in the interest of pursuing a sex scandal we are ignoring life and death problems all over the planet.

Obviously, as somebody who is famous, I have a particular responsibility

For us, giving back is not an extracurricular activity.

As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.

Working with kids is something I really enjoy doing - that's why I also do work with UNICEF.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business.

In contemplating what to do with my life, I felt like I had two possible paths: one was to move to New York and work in a design house; the other was to move to Africa and deliver food aid. That's when the idea of the FEED bag came to me. It's for those who want to put their consumer dollars to good use.

Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.

The business aspect and the social aspect of FEED go hand in hand. The more we can strengthen our business, the more we are able to give. And the more we can focus on giving back, the more customers will want to buy our products, thus strengthening our business.

Over the years, we have gone beyond our businesses to take up philanthropic projects in diverse areas - from education to health care to skilling.

I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.

My brother and I made a pact that every deal we do has to have a charitable component; otherwise, we don't do it.

The Super Bowl is an occasion that's really associated with abundance - lots of snacks, parties, spectacle - and so it would be great if there were also some kind of tradition of generosity attached to it as well.

I want to make money for third-world-country kids, and I need to be smart about how to do it.

I love representing WWE, like, with Make-A-Wish, Be a STAR, Special Olympics.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

Through Common Goal, we're creating a collaborative way for football to give back to society.

In Brazil, we think we can help by using our image, the fact that we are very well known, to help others. I think lots of footballers want to do something, but many don't know how.

It's important that the Oilers are contributing to the community.

I support a lot of causes, but I do it privately. My profession shouldn't be a platform.