Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the desire for impactful societal change over merely focusing on low expenses in charity work.
Dan Pallotta argues that the current generation prioritizes meaningful, transformative actions rather than solely maintaining low operational costs in charitable organizations. He suggests that the legacy left behind should reflect significant contributions to the world, rather than just frugality in charity overhead.
In practice
In a speech about philanthropy at a charity event.
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 call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.
I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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