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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.