Raising Money Quotes

Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.

Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that.

Cancer is a very real thing. it takes a lot of lives every year. It's something we can always pursue and try to find a cure, and try to raise money.

A government shutdown provides opportunities for both political parties to raise money from their base.

The seed idea for Rappler really is looking at information cascades. If you think about it, the end goal - when I was raising money for Rappler, I didn't talk about investigative journalism, even though that's our core.

My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.

When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

A lot of people can raise money.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

Investors like to invest based on traction, so it's always better to raise money when you've got more traction than less.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

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

I don't know of any other organization that's raised more money than golf has, because if you are a baseball player, you're a football player, you're a hockey player, if you're just a businessman, and you want to raise some money for a charity, what do they do? They have a golf tournament. They have a golf outing, and they go out and they do it.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.