Jack Ma Quotes

I think it is what you do with your wealth that is important. I don't believe in accumulating money for money's sake. It's one of the reasons I want to do more about helping women.

A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.

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

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

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

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

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

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

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.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.

I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.

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.

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.

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.

You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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.