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…

- Dan Pallotta

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,…

- Dan Pallotta

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

- Dan Pallotta

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…

- Dan Pallotta

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 …

- Dan Pallotta

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…

- Dan Pallotta

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

- Dan Pallotta

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

- Dan Pallotta

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…

- Dan Pallotta