Chuck Feeney

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.

I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.