Peter Jones Quotes

Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

My major task was to keep us solvent.

One thing I never thought about in my big-company job? Cash flow. When your business has billions of dollars in revenue, you can make a lot of mistakes and still have a viable business. But in a startup, make a few hiring mistakes, and you can find yourself in real jeopardy fast.

I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.

Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt.

If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.

A small business can survive for a while without making a profit, but if its cashflow dries up, the impact is fatal.

I really love being finance director.

Cash in must exceed cash out.

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

In times of crisis, cash is king.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

The business end of business has never interested me.

Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time - for example, in the private sector, the management of complex financial institutions or, in the public sector, the day-to-day supervision of those institutions.

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.