Mark Victor Hansen Quotes

At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

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.

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

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.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

You give the money where you want it.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

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

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

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.

There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.

The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.