Brooke Astor Quotes

I know about raising money.

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

Raising money, like sausage-making, ain't pretty to see, and it would be just criminally naive to rely on the big hearts of big donors.

I am good at raising money.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

I think everything depends on money.

A lot of people can raise money.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

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

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.

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?

If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

I'm not good at raising money. I don't like to raise money. It's been my experience that when I ask someone for money, it's not long before they return the favor.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

Movie is a near art form. It's showbiz and people want to make money. And generally people are financing things because they think it will make money whether it's a cable news show, a cable show, or a feature film, or whatever it is. So that's the part of it that drives it, I think, is really the dollar.

People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.

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.

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.