Top 54 Quotes About Fundraising
#1. Of course, prayer ought to permeate all we do in ministry, but it's especially important in fundraising.
Scott Morton
#2. Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new economic team. You know what he should do? Hire those people who were in charge of his fundraising campaign. We can pay this thing off in like a week.
Jay Leno
#3. We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.
Marcy Kaptur
#4. When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.
Garry Kasparov
#5. 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
#6. Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.
Terry Fox
#8. When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom.
Henri Nouwen
#9. Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
P. J. O'Rourke
#10. Because fundraising is so distracting, a startup should either be in fundraising mode or not. And when you do decide to raise money, you should focus your whole attention on it so you can get it done quickly and get back to work.
Anonymous
#11. Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.
Henri Nouwen
#12. The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Paul Graham
#13. Since there are a wide range of entrepreneurs fundraising at any given time, I looked at each opportunity as it has arisen and on its own merits. Then I've sat down with my financial advisers, we've looked at the numbers and gone for the businesses I believe have real potential.
Andy Murray
#14. Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'
Bill Maher
#15. I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.
James Balog
#16. Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table.
Jay Leno
#17. The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
Bianca Jagger
#18. Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
John Byrne
#19. I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.
David Prowse
#20. The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.
Jay Samit
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Fundraising is also always a call conversion. And this comes to both those who seek funds and those who have funds. Whether we are asking for money or giving money we are drawn together by God, who is about to do a new thing through our collaboration.
Henri
#24. Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.
Jeff Henderson
#25. My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
Nell Newman
#26. When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
Adam Braun
#27. Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
Edward Norton
#28. When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
John Major
#29. 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
#30. The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.
John Sulston
#31. Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives ... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that.
Geoff Davis
#32. This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
Madeleine Albright
#33. Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment.
Chellie Pingree
#34. Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.
Kevin Systrom
#35. 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
#36. Evan Spiegel, the 24-year-old founder of Snapchat, a photo-messaging app that was valued at $15 billion after a round of fundraising in March, confirmed that his firm is preparing for an IPO, though he didn't say when.
Anonymous
#37. 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
#38. This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.
John Sarbanes
#40. I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.
John McCain
#41. Fundraising is proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission.
Henri
#42. That's your job. To make something out of nothing. To pull together all the disparate threads: recruiting (with no money), fundraising (with no reputation), and delivering joy (with no product). You must fabricate the chicken and the egg. Simultaneously.
Dan Shapiro
#43. The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
Brad Feld
#44. 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
#45. 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
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Matthew Walker
#48. 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
#49. We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble
Marissa Mayer
#50. Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
Alejandro Cremades
#51. 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
#52. The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success
Fred Wilson
#53. If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER
Mark Suster
#54. 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
