Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Giving is true having.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

No one has ever become poor by giving.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.