When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.