There’s never a shortage of people who want to do this, but there’s always a shortage of cash. – On open wheel racing, for
Financing
Cost effective sponsorship
Spending just $200K a year, a Visa program helped spawn a whole generation of winning decathlon Olympians.
Financing the mediocre
Unfortunately, thousands of good designs are never produced because there is not enough money behind them. On the other hand, millions of mediocre, even
Gibbs raising money for racing team
Gibbs has always played down his role in his NASCAR team’s success, portraying himself as ignorant about the workings of racecars and a liability,
Netscape founder, Mark Andreessen, On technology funding and baseball
The whole structure of how the technology industry gets funded – by venture capitalists, angel investors, and Wall Street – is predicated on the
Smithsonian
Smithsonian is now the biggest museum complex in the world, but when James Smithson first gave $508,318 to get it started, in 1838, congress
Peter Bart
Lord of the Rings; Peter Jackson, the director, had the door slammed in his face by almost every studio and independent in the world.