James Florio Quotes

Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously.

To be honest, we donate to projects that we think are meaningful. How society views it or how we are viewed by history, well, we'll let them decide. How others view us is out of our control.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.

Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked, is having a family donation to a charity for those less fortunate. Ask your kids to search for items, toys, or clothes that they no longer use and contribute those items a collection box.

I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.

I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

More money gives me the chance to help more people, to give something back.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

Trying to give back a little bit is important.

I believe in giving back.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.