Fundraising Quotes - Page 3

• There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

  Daniel Inouye

  World Government, Air, Law

  Iran-Contra Hearings Closing Statement, www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org. August 03, 1987.

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• We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

  Marissa Mayer

  Becoming, Company, Profitable

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• Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head

  Travis Kalanick

  Nice, Done, Fantasy

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• It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, Interesting, Cliche

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• I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

  Jason Calacanis

  Entrepreneur, Email, Products

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• When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

  Dan Pallotta

  Motivation, Inspiration, Innovation

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• Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it's so easy for me to share that and it's such a light.

  Jason Mraz

  Powerful, Light, Tools

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Home, Swings

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• The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

  Brad Feld

  Financial, Predictions, Percent

  Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson (2016). “Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

  Dan Pallotta

  Growth, Charity, Want

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• If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

  Mark Suster

  Games, Done, Game Over

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• Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dating, Computer, Fine

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• Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.

  Emerson Spartz

  New York, Writing, Squares

  "8 Bloggers to Follow for Startup Inspiration and Advice". www.businessinsider.com. June 28, 2013.

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• If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

  Jeff Brooks

  Theatre, Needs, Study

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• Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, 'I'm begging.' Because what better way to show you're a strong leader than acting like you're drunk and dialing your ex?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Strong, Majority Leader, Drunk

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Presidential, Political

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• I think what it is is do not depend on the president to get you over the line. Do not depend on the fundraising, on the turnout operation, the president's own popularity, because it's not going to work.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, President, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I worked for Hillary [Clinton] when I was young - when she was running for the Senate. I was fundraising and things, I see all of these people as political in a way that isn't humanistic. I'm just watching and hoping that someone is going to distinguish himself or herself as comprehending what we need.

  Patti Smith

  Running, People, Political

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Determination, War, Commitment

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• The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Real, Things In Life

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• You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

  Thomas Keller

  Book, Chef, Knows

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• [President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake.

  Charlton Heston

  Coffee, Gun, Years

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• He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my throat as he reached out and brushed a strand of hair where it had flown across my cheek. 'I believe we do have unfinished business.' 'Good.' I gulped, suddenly one big mass of tingling body parts that wanted an immediate introduction to all of his body parts. I tried to slam down a mental barrier between his mind and mine, but it did no good. The cheerleaders in my groin were setting up fundraising car washes to finance a field trip to his groin.

  Katie MacAlister

  Believe, Eye, Unfinished Business

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• The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

  Donald Calne

  Emotional, Differences, Essentials

  Donald Calne (2010). “Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior”, p.253, Vintage

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• To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

  Peter McWilliams

  Success, Motivation, Mistake

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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