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Passion and Money Are Not Mutually Exclusive

The belief that wanting to make money signals lack of passion is sophomoric; people at Apple, Google, and heart surgeons are highly paid yet passionate and effective, and viewing those who want money as having no heart treats human beings as half a person who has no interest in their family, children, or own charitable giving.

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Speaker

Dan Pallotta

Evidence Quote

You are looking at human beings as half a person. That they don't have any interest in--let's not talk about the abstraction of money--that they don't have any interest in sending their kids perhaps to a private school

Source

Dan Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit SectorEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:09:33 AM

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