Working Capital Quotes

Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.

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.

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong.

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.

We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

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.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

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.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

Knowledge," in the sense of information, means the working capital, the indispensable resources, of further inquiry; of finding out, or learning, more things. Frequently it is treated as an end in itself, and then the goal becomes to heap it up and display it when called for. This static, cold-storage ideal of knowledge is inimical to educative development. It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking.

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

Having more customers means nothing if America's small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

I've certainly learnt there's nothing more important than cash - cash flow issues are one of the biggest causes of company failures.

Most entrepreneurs come up with a product, or they come up with an idea and they think they can be successful with it. But if they don't know the financial side of their business and understand credit and working capital and what it takes money-wise, you can't be successful. The product is just a product.

We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

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