Financial Turnaround Quotes

It always looks dark at the bottom of a recovery.

It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me.

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.

UDAY is meant for financial and operational turnaround of discoms.

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!

We bought the UFC when not only was it a bankrupt company that was going under, it had a horrible stigma attached to it. This thing was so bad it was not allowed on pay-per-view.

Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.

The NRA was run like an old-time club when I took over. We were in the red and getting cut off from our membership.

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.

My biggest dream for this company is to restore it - to bring Time Warner back to the position that I think it once had and, even better than that, to make it the greatest company in the media and entertainment world.

You can't delegate turning a company around.