While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.

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

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 - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.

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

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

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

People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.