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" As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business. "
Giving
Feel
Doing
" Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. "
Tell
Take
Powerful
" Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say. "
Media
Good
Say
" Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical. "
Look
You
Go
" I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard. "
Think
Reading
Media
" If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it. "
World
Open
Risk
" I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class. "
Think
Want
Class
" People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences. "
Health
Financial
Think
" The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process. "
Innovation
Process
Risk
" The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision. "
Vision
Think
Things
" Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor. "
Wall
Goal
People
" You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact. "
Business
Fool
Ethics
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