Sandra Lerner Quotes

All of my businesses are profitable.

Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.

As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue but then you come out of it and very quickly you should become a company that spends less than it makes. And what I mean by very quickly, is that window of time should be in that 6 to 8 year time frame. And the reason is because if you build your business model correctly it's almost unavoidable.

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

Businesswise, everything's been good.

I truly believe that the combination of a strong top line together with a strong bottom line is what makes for a sustainable business.

The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

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.

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

Companies with significant revenue (more than $100 million) have, by definition, significant traction. They have proven out their thesis and can scale up or down as investment capital becomes available.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?