Solomon Burke Quotes

Like all small-business owners, I know what it's like to take a risk on an idea, manage cash flow, navigate regulations and tax laws, and create jobs.

While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

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.

Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled.

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.

One of the most important aspects of an athlete's financial life is that he needs to be personally responsible for his own finances.

We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don't normally talk about. Like, we'd love to get Kim Kardashian to talk to us about finance. She is a businesswoman, after all.

When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer.

It was only when I started handling Treasury Operations that I realised all of a sudden just how much wealth we have. That is a huge responsibility, so I decided to get on with it and learn how to manage it, because I am a single child and have no siblings to share the responsibility with.