32 Quotes by 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 can’t solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I’m overhead.

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

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

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 reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

And they are tired of being told to “act more like a business” by businesspeople who refuse to allow them to use any of the real tools of business – adequate resources, to begin with.