Cheryl Crawford 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.

If you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business.

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

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.

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

Hard work, careful planning, and realistic financial advice will be required by many to regain solvency.

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.

I took business and economics courses. More than anything, I learned the proper steps and the things that need to be outlined. You have to keep your books: how much money you made, how much money you're spending, what you profited, and what you're gonna need for expenses.

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.

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

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.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

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.

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.

In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

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.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

It hath been observed in the nature of Arithmetick, that like other parts of the Mathematicks, it doth not only improve the Rational Faculties, but inclines those that are expert in it to thrifiness and good Husbandry, and prevents both Husbands and Wives in some measure from running out of their Estates, when they have it always ready in their Heads what their expences do amount to, and how soon by that course their ruine must overtake them.