Tom Wolfe Quotes

Put your good where it does the most.

My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

If you get to think of sharing wealth with people who need it and the purposes that need it, it gives a very different sense of satisfaction. I think I can build an institution which is very unlike the Gates' foundation. Gates' foundation is totally project-driven, that will serve a specific purpose and then self-destruct.

Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.

Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.

Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world.

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

Take for example providing a guide dog for a blind person. That's a good thing to do, right? All right. It is a good thing to do. But you have to think what else you could do with the resources. It costs about $40,000 to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person. It costs somewhere between 20 and $50 to cure a blind person in a developing country if they have trachoma. So you do the sums, and you could provide one guide dog for one blind American or you could cure between 400 and 2,000 people of blindness.

If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.

Charitable giving is a huge sector in the United States. It amounts to $350 billion a year. And yet, I can't help feeling that a lot of that is wasted because people have not been thinking about how to do it as effectively as possible.

You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better