“Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people ne...” — Manoj Bhargava Quote

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.

Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

I wasn't going to a charity event in order to get a picture, in order to get into a magazine.

Growing up, my family was like an unofficial foster home. My dad was a judge and my mom was a director of a women and children's charity.