Tariq Ali Quotes

A lot of people can raise money.

I know about raising money.

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

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

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

Clubs shouldn't be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.

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

I am good at raising money.

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

A lot of people don't know the USOC is not government funded and they are always looking for support from sponsors.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

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.

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.

There shouldn't be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn't be any budget problems.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

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.