Words matter. These are the best Jeffrey Skoll Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they’re too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they’re older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.
At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.
When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn’t gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he’s still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.
My views tend to be centrist. I’m not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world’s most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.
I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
My goal was to be at the point – no older than 40 – where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.
Looking at America, which has so much wealth and potential and yet has so many deep-rooted problems, I think it gives us, as Canadians, an opportunity to be on the world stage on the climate change issue.
I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that’s how trust gets built.
If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there’s an opportunity for something good to happen.
I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I’m like, ‘Oh. Things aren’t quite as good.’
My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.
My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.
