Quotes About Raising Money

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

John Ratzenberger

#2. 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

#3. I'm just raising money. Dead presidents are my relatives.

Juicy J

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Dennis Quaid

#7. 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

#8. 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 W. Tuchman

#9. The company builds the prototype and presents it to VC firms in the hope of raising money. If they are successful, they need to go into production, so they quickly turn their prototype application into a production deployment by leveraging a cloud "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) [28] platform.

Anonymous

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

Lee Daniels

#13. My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

Patti Smith

#14. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

Henrik Fisker

#15. 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

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

Georgette Mosbacher

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

Leon M. Lederman

#18. 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

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

Louis Susman

#20. For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.

Sarah Harrison

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.

Mike Barnicle

#25. 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

#26. If raising money is critical to getting reelected, so is spending taxpayers' money to reward those who help get us reelected.

Congressman X

#27. I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.

Ze Frank

#28. Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

Edward St. Aubyn

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

Maureen Reagan

#30. 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

#31. 'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.

Lauren Velez

#32. 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

#33. I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country - which is the reason you ran in the first place.

Shelley Moore Capito

#34. 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

#35. Giving is not God's way of raising money; it is God's way of raising people into the likeness of His Son.

Howard Dayton

#36. I know about raising money.

Nancy Pelosi

#37. 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

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

Frank A. Clark

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

Philip Zimbardo

#42. I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.

Kevin Smith

#43. And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

Arthur Laffer

#44. My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

Gaby Hoffmann

#45. People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

Terry McAuliffe

#46. I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

Lance Armstrong

#47. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

Adam Sandler

#48. When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'

Marie Osmond

#49. Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa

#50. The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#51. What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

Kevin Yoder

#52. For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.

Irwin Winkler

#53. Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Jay Carney

#54. Having a big budget, I have no problem with spending the movie. It's fantastic to have a big budget. It gives a lot of time. It gives a lot of freedom. What's difficult is raising the money beforehand, and then when the investor wants the money back, afterwards.

Jaco Van Dormael

#55. Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

Kevin Yoder

#56. Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give - not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.

Stormie O'martian

#57. Too many church leaders have bought into the myth that to clarify the win means establishing attendance goals and raising a lot of money.

Andy Stanley

#58. Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

Jesse L. Martin

#59. Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.

Thomas Perez

#60. Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

Nigel Lawson

#61. I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street.

Bernie Sanders

#62. It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#63. Woyzeck
Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

Georg Buchner

#64. Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

William Petty

#65. 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

#66. I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.

Lindsey Graham

#67. 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

#68. Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

Dick Morris

#69. Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.

Jay Samit

#70. Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

Lawrence Bender

#71. Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Michael Badnarik

#72. If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.

Charlie Munger

#73. He loved the fact that if you got your customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket

Terry Pratchett

#74. It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.

Christina Applegate