Kathy Giusti Quotes

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.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

Raising money, like sausage-making, ain't pretty to see, and it would be just criminally naive to rely on the big hearts of big donors.

By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.

The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Your team has to understand that coming into the ABA, you have to have your investments right and sponsorships and people ready to give you money so they can back you up.

I don't like begging money from producers.

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.

A lot of people can raise money.

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

I know about raising money.

It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'

The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

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.

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.

I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

I'm just raising money. Dead presidents are my relatives.

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists.