Philip Hammond Quotes

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

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.

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.

There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

I make sure that New York gets more than its fair share.

We must bite the bullet and provide the resources to make programs come alive.

In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.

There is a lot to managing, and with almost four years under my belt, I believe I'm ready.

If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.

[Having bigger budget] allowed me to be a full-time filmmaker for a couple months and not have to have a day job and be balancing a bunch of other stuff. It allowed me to bring in all these people from different parts of the country. It allows me to have an actual food budget, where we could eat healthy for the month we were shooting. It makes all the difference in the world.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.