Raising Money Quotes

• 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

  Money, New York, Thinking

  FOX News Special Report With Brit Hume, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 18, 2006.

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• 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

  Fundraising, Asking

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

  Louis Susman

  Thinking, Knack, Reason

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

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

  Frank A. Clark

  Life, Food, Simplicity

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

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Money, Going Out, Asking

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

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Success, Wise

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “Works”, p.380

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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

  Ben Horowitz

  Lenses, Looks, Want

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

  Leon M. Lederman

  Time, Science, Religion

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• 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

  Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Good Things

  "What We Are Seeing" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, Fundraising, Next

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• 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

  War, Cost, Pay

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

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• 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

  Children, Vegetables, Talking

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

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• 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

  Brother, Care, Way

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• 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

  America, Views, Insane

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• 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

  Independent, People, Interesting

  "Interview: Karen Allen and the Kingdom of Her Crystal Life". Interview with PatrickMcD, hollywoodchicago.com. September 29, 2009.

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• 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

  President, Giants, Pay

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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

  Years, Needs, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Running, Hands, Tvs

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• 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

  Political, World, Tiny

  "'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.

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• 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

  Money, Believe, Goal

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Past, Years, Research

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• 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

  Memories, Hero, Hard Times

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• 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

  Religious, Hate, Leader

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