People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about..

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, A….

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they ….

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets..

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world..

Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand.

While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business t….

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming..

When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people th….

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reacti….

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue,….

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams..

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we….

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation..

We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to s….

What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we ar….

If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-te….