Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

The Buckeye Build will have a lasting impact on Cleveland, and it is an honor to be a part of it.

Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.

If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

My greatest work comes in the community.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.

What tournaments want to do, typically, is support charities in their community that need the money and charities that are impactful to their community. The better the job the tournament does for the charities, the better they are able to sell the tournament and raise money for the charity.

Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow.

In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.

Those fortunate to achieve great wealth should put it to work for the good of humanity.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

Over the years, we have gone beyond our businesses to take up philanthropic projects in diverse areas - from education to health care to skilling.

Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.