Marissa Mayer Quotes

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.

My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

You can't operate a business running at a loss, and particularly if you're doing it by paying yourselves. It just doesn't fly.

It takes some discipline and hard work, but relying on credit when things go wrong is a trap.

The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means.

As a model, I look at clubs like Brighton and the success they've achieved gradually on a sustainable budget. I want to take a similar approach.

I spend a lot of money on the little things that make me happy, like 3 falafels from M&S to eat on the train on the way up to Edinburgh, but I do keep a close eye on the bigger picture. I don't flash the cash ridiculously on expensive things.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.