Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

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

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

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 you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.