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.

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

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.

What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.

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.

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