Ryan Holmes Quotes

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.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

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.

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.

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.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

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.

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

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 business acumen is definitely growing.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

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

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

I really don't spend my money that much unless I'm reinvesting in my business.

In my experience, fledgling entrepreneurs focus way too much on the money - you can get most things done and figure out a lot without spending much. That said, most businesses require money to launch and get off the ground.

If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

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.

When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.

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.