Georgette Mosbacher Quotes

A lot of people can raise money.

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

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

I know about raising money.

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

Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.

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.

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

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.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.

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

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.

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

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.

Let's face it, the thing was a fund-raising appeal and with a fund-raising appeal, you always fire for effect. You always exaggerate a bit.

Every moment of free time is eaten up by fundraising.

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.

If you don't ask for money, people don't think you are a serious candidate.

When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital.

Trump is not a fan of fundraising, but he's willing to do it.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.