Nancy Pelosi Quotes

I am good at raising money.

A lot of people can raise money.

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

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

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

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

We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

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.

My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.

The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.

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

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

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.