business finance Quotes

Accounting is the language of business.

Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must adopt policies that support functional capital markets without imposing undue restrictions on providers of debt and equity capital.

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

Business money is limitless.

I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.

Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

Back home in Maine people tend to think that there should be a balance between money coming in and money going out in their own lives, in their businesses and the Federal government.

As well as, we know, as a real estate developer, [Donald Trump] has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, in loans.

Control your cash. Stick to your core business. Know your numbers.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

Credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.

I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not.

Business is other people's money.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

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.