Raising Money Quotes:

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

- Millard Fuller

topic: Fundraising, Asking, Raising Money

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

- Kathryn Finney

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: White, Female, Raising Money

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

- Juan Williams

topic: New York, Thinking, People, Raising Money

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

- Louis Susman

source: "Profile: Louis Susman, Obama's pick for ambassador to the UK" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Knack, Reason, Raising Money

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Life, Food, Simplicity, Living A Simple Life, Raising Money

In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.

- Georgette Mosbacher

topic: Money, Going Out, Asking, Raising Money

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

- Woody Allen

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring, Good Money, Inspirational Money

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Always Happy, Inner Peace And Happiness

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Inspirational, Success, Wise, Inspirational Money Making, Money Cant Buy Happiness

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Lenses, Looks, Want, Raising Money

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

- Leon M. Lederman

topic: Science, Physics, Easier, Raising Money, Easier Times

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

- Fred Wilson

topic: Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Good Things, Raising Money

I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.

- Jim Sturgess

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Taken, Acting, Band, Raising Money

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

- Reid Hoffman

topic: Thinking, Fundraising, Next, Raising Money

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

- Lawrence Lessig

source: "'Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You': Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

topic: Political, World, Tiny, Raising Money, Congressman

Wouldn't it be just great if somebody could actually get elected without having to spend all that time raising money? Wouldn't it be great if somebody could get elected president without having to pay all the donors back? Wouldn't it be fabulous if somebody could get elected president without this giant due bill?

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: President, Giants, Pay, Raising Money

I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

- Lawrence Lessig

topic: America, Views, Insane, Time Spent, Raising Money

I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

- Lawrence Lessig

topic: Brother, Care, Way, Raising Money

VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.

- Phil Vischer

source: "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

topic: Children, Vegetables, Talking, Raising Money, Bible Stories

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

- Tilda Swinton

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Years, Needs, World, Raising Money

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

- Barbara Tuchman

source: "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 81, 1978.

topic: War, Cost, Pay, Raising Money, Crux

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

- Karen Allen

topic: Independent, People, Interesting, Raising Money, Independent Film

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

- Tony Campolo

topic: Religious, Hate, Leader, Raising Money, Religious Leaders

If you want to run for the United States Senate, you hire a consultant who will do polling for you, who will tell you the kinds of television ads you should run, who will tell you that most of the money you raise has got to go into TV. Raising money, and then putting that money into the hands of consultants, who then put on TV ads - that's more or less what campaigns are about. We've got to change that.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: billmoyers.com

topic: Running, Hands, Tvs, Raising Money

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

- David Ginola

topic: Memories, Hero, Hard Times, Raising Money

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

- John Ratzenberger

topic: Past, Years, Research, Raising Money, Diabetes

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.

- Greg Walden

topic: Believe, Goal, Secret, Misguided, Raising Money

A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.

- C. Wright Mills

topic: Smart, Blessed, Men, Operators, Raising Money

Well, I've thought about donating, but they get so many damn donations already. I read about one foundation that raised over 100 million dollars. Well where the hell did that go? For all I know every starving child has a 2 story house by now. Or maybe they're all raging alcoholics, like homeless people. Homeless people who are more effective when it comes to raising money. Who wants to support alcoholic children? Not me.

- Zach Braff

topic: Children, People, House, Raising Money, Homeless People

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

- Michael Oxley

topic: Umpires, Judging, President, Raising Money

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

- Maureen Reagan

topic: Taken, Unique, Two, Raising Money

[Hillary Clinton] is now lost two times in a row, is the message that [Kellyanne] Conway was sending. But to the Clinton camp, the campaign's never over. It's gonna continue 'cause then you're raising money for the foundation. She's floating the fact she might run again in 2020.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Running, Two, Foundation, Raising Money

The fact remains that we're running a presidential campaign. And we're doing that through appearances like today, fund-raisers like today, where Donald Trump was in Texas, raising money, not just for the trump campaign, but, drumroll, please, for the RNC and the Republican committees, which benefits all these candidates that Paul Ryan is trying to protect.

- Kellyanne Conway

topic: Running, Texas, Presidential, Raising Money, Presidential Campaign

We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Lobbyists, Needs, Election, Raising Money, American Elections

Donald Trump talks about how he's not going to be controlled by the moneyed interests. Do people understand that he's not giving money to his campaign, he's loaning it because he expects to get money back from those same big donors he decries right now? He's planning on running a general election based upon raising money from those very people.

- Mitt Romney

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Running, Giving Money, People, Raising Money, General Elections

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

- Dennis Quaid

source: "Golf Digest Ranks Hollywood Golfers", www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2005.

topic: Charity, Dinner, Three Things, Raising Money

In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be financed for the next one. I'm assured at least of the next one, but you're always [only] as good as your last film. I think it's true for anyone.

- Philippe Falardeau

topic: Writing, Thinking, Canada, Raising Money

I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.

- Diane Nash

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mother, War, Thinking, Raising Money, Fundraiser

The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

- Tilda Swinton

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Drug, Important, Collaboration, Genesis, Raising Money

As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

- Tom Colicchio

source: "Tom Colicchio on solving the hunger problem in America". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2013.

topic: Raising Money, Food Banks, Local Food