Mark Goulston Quotes

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

What's success all about? What's philanthropy all about? Let's think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.

What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.

I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

Give something back by becoming more

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to charity?

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.