Fund-raising Quotes

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

I know about raising money.

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.

We are going to try and turn Lord's red for the day as a testament to my wife Ruth, but more importantly as a way of increasing awareness and raising funds for the Ruth Strauss Foundation.

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.

In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.

At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

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.

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.

Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.