Jerry Saltz Quotes

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.

When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

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.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make sure that we're even more - how shall we say it - fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it's time to run our campaigns.

Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.