Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have begun lobbying their fellow billionaires to donate more to charity.
Meeting Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates on their recent visit to India was inspiring.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have not been explicitly religious in their motivations for philanthropy.
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Oprah Winfrey kicked off the day, and Warren Buffett and Bill Gates also gave keynote talks.
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Both men have signed the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Giving Pledge and are active philanthropists.
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The Giving Pledge, conceived by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is overseen by the Gates Foundation.
Their combined fortune of thirty-five billion dollars is exceeded only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Getting more money should not be Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' main goal.
Adelson was once America's third richest man behind Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Far from being hated, many of the superrich -- people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett -- became folk heroes.
With the friendship of table tennis enthusiasts Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, she seems well on her way.
Gordon Brown has taken advice from a group of "wise men", such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, for several years.
Augusta National, with a membership that includes America's two richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is an extremely wealthy place.
Thankfully, the very richest like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are committed to using their wealth to address huge problems.
And as you noted, Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates and others who have taken the pledge were participants in that meeting.
Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are richer than they were a year ago, and that has had huge implications for philanthropic giving.
He shared the stage with Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates speaking about his philanthropic activities that are focussed on educating the underprivileged.
In 2010 Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor, were among the first group to sign the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Giving Pledge.
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In addition to being the richest people in America, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the most philanthropic folks on the planet.
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He met with Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates today.
And would the commonweal really be improved by shifting assets from Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
That way you will have plenty of resources left to try to develop an insight that will make you as rich as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates or Oprah.
Yet there's also a budding philanthropic spirit, even if Bill Gates and Warren Buffett didn't get a full house at their charity barnstorming in Beijing a year ago.
You can see a video interview with him here, in which he describes being inspired by the generosity of American billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
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Cleaning out the attic of decades of these loopholes and using the savings to lower the tax rate ensures that Mr. Buffett, Bill Gates and Lady Gaga pay their fair share.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates (and wife Melinda) are pushing other fat cats to donate half their wealth, or more, to philanthropic causes before they shuffle off this life.
Zuckerberg, a signatory of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, showed his generosity during the holiday season, gifting 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in December for education initiatives.
Launched by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in June of last year, the Giving Pledge is a long-term charitable initiative that aims to inspire conversations about philanthropy and increase charitable giving in the United States.
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Earlier this month, when 40 billionaires, prodded by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, announced they would donate much of their wealth to charity, Ani Hurwitz, director of communications for the New York Community Trust, saw an opportunity.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates should use more of their money to set up region-specific venture capital funds and micro-lending organizations with main goals not to get killer returns but to give entrepreneurs the ability to try out their ideas.
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