Fund Raising Quotes

#1. It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'

Twyla Tharp

#2. For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

Michael Arad

#3. I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.

Stewart Rahr

#4. There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Jack Kemp

#5. The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

Wes Boyd

#6. The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive.

Philip Yancey

#7. No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ... record of ... Krebiozen ...

Roland V. Libonati

#8. But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus ... What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.

Edgar Berman

#9. They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit ... they're a bunch of wimps.

Paul Watson

#10. When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.

Lewis Black

#11. I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.

Azita Ghanizada

#12. The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.

Ravida Din

#13. Standing in the shadow of the most prodigious political and fund-raising apparatus the Democratic Party had ever seen, [Biden] felt like a stranger to it, as if he'd walked into an opulent wedding where he knew no one.

Mark Halperin

#14. At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

Bonnie Raitt

#15. We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

Charles Vest

#16. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

David Rockefeller

#17. Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

Jeffrey Deitch

#18. In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Alvin Ailey

#19. or declaration of party fund raising. Unlike in the United States where fund raising is a completely transparent process and there is accountability to the last dollar - in India, party donations are not talked about, any corporation or individual

Shaili Chopra

#20. I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

Nido Qubein

#21. It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Garry Kasparov

#22. One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

Picabo Street

#23. I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

Michelle Obama

#24. Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.

Sharon Osbourne

#25. Up to ninety percent of a politician's time is absorbed just doing fund-raising. That's

Larry Correia

#26. A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

David Almond

#27. For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home ... for the rest of my life, watching all of you go off one by one.

Melanie Benjamin

#28. 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

#29. I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.

John Sandford

#30. Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.

Justin Cronin

#31. In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Michael Bloomberg

#32. My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Deana Carter

#33. Memory is more indelible than ink.

Anita Loos

#34. We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.

Joshua Micah Marshall

#35. They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

William John Wills

#36. the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.

Sean Patrick

#37. After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren't already real within us, we couldn't even hope them.

Gloria Steinem

#38. I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible.

Margaret Atwood