Michael Milken Quotes

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

Not everybody has to work on the big problems, but if nobody does, they don't get solved.

'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front.

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

I'd like to solve more problems and help Hoosiers with more opportunities by serving on more committees.

Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

Instead of just being the person that's like: 'Gosh, that's cool that people are doing stuff and good luck. Do you need me to write a check? I can do that,' I've always just been very hands-on.

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

I realized doing this work, identifying either issues or challenges or thinking about opportunities to actually impact people's lives, I could actually make things better, and bringing people around the table for solutions was something I liked doing and was actually something I was able to do fairly well.

I'm honored the folks and Bendon understood why I wanted to work with them and Toys for Tots.

I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.

Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

If you get into business solely to make money, you won’t. If you try to make a real difference, you’ll find success.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.