32 Quotes by Dan Pallotta

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

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

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

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.

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 see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.

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 think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

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

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