Tom Green Quotes

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

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.

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.

I believe with great fortunes come great responsibility, so with our family's assets and many wealthy friends, we could help raise a lot of money to help others.

Parsee culture is definitely one of strong business acumen, high ethics, and an element of philanthropy.

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

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.

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.

A person's level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....' You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.