no bucks, no Buck Rogers

English

Proverb

no bucks, no Buck Rogers

1. One must raise money to be able to achieve one's objectives, especially in the exploration of outer space.
   • 2016 Nov. 30, Lee Billings, Trump’s First 100 Days: Space," Scientific American (retrieved 7 Oct 2017):

     Whether NASA under Trump will stay the course . . . an old adage attributed to its first human spaceflights of the 1960s is likely to define its fate: no bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Usage notes

• Notably used in the motion picture The Right Stuff (1983).