Fund Quotes - page 8

I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world. (Kavita Ramdas)
Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund. View quote
Liam Aiken
I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators. View quote
Lisa Gansky
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements. View quote
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease. View quote
Leila Janah
Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund. View quote
Mario Monti
On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund. View quote
Malcolm Turnbull
Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down. View quote
Callum McDougall
Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users. View quote
Cynthia Lummis
It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon. View quote
Dudley North
I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team. (Nick D'Aloisio)
I only wish I had more time for fund raising. View quote
Nido Qubein
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve. View quote
Pete Sessions
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically. View quote
Rick Renzi
My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately. View quote
Ralph Regula
In the rest of the world, rich people will give a donation, and businessmen give to charities. But in Mexico, the execution capacity of what we call the social sector is missing. I find it much more effective to set up the actual social organisation and then fund it with my money. View quote
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty. View quote
Serge Haroche
I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'. View quote
Sharon Lawrence
Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain. View quote
Sharon Osbourne
I am thrilled to support World of Children and its superlative efforts to fund changemakers around the world. It's a great privilege to be associated with an organization that recognizes and funds those individuals really working in the trenches, and I look forward to being part of advancing positive change for children everywhere. View quote
Stephanie March
Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization. (Steven Van Zandt)
To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities. View quote
Thomas Vilsack
We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero. View quote
Tim Scott
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable. View quote
Tony D'Souza
The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything. View quote
Trey Parker