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Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.

— Nell Newman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.

— John Paul DeJoria

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

— Foster Friess

There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating.

— John Delaney

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

— Ken Buck

We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.

— Tino Sehgal

We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It's not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?

— Nick Hanauer

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

— Jim Rohn

✗Opposing Perspectives

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

— Michael Moore