Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, President of the Ayala Corporation (headquartered in the Philippines): 

"We all pay for poverty and unemployment and illiteracy. If a large percentage of society falls into a disadvantaged class, investors will find it hard to source skilled and alert workers; manufacturers will have a limited market for their products; criminality will scare away foreign investments, and internal migrants to limited areas of opportunities will strain basic services and lead to urban blight. Under these conditions, no country can move forward economically and sustain development….It therefore makes business sense for corporations to complement the efforts of government in contributing to social development."

[from Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, "Philanthropy Makes Business Sense," speech to Asian business people at a 1995 Conference on Corporate Citizenship (Hong Kong), text included in Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, "Philanthropy Makes Business Sense," Business Day (Bangkok) (25 Sep. 1995); same text in Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, "Philanthropy Makes Business Sense," Ayala Foundation Inc. Quarterly Vol. 4, No. 2 (July-Sep., Oct.-Nov. 1995), p. 3]