Cenk Uygur Quotes

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.

Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

I'm sensitive to the resources needed by a small business to get started and keep going.

Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending.

Every American business, from the biggest companies to small hardware companies, need money to flow through the system not only to create new jobs but to sustain existing jobs.

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.

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

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

Investors like to invest based on traction, so it's always better to raise money when you've got more traction than less.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

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

I've invested in pitches and continue to run clinics to help encourage others to do the same.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.

I think funding risky projects is very important.