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The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'. -- David Tang
I'm a cash flow guy. If it doesn't make me money today, forget about it. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow. -- John Mackey
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. -- Robert Kiyosaki
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow. -- Ray Dalio
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. -- Chris Chocola
There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments. -- Meredith Whitney
What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models. -- Louis Navellier
Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion. -- Louis Navellier
You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends. -- Michael Lee-Chin
There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom. -- Mel Karmazin
Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy. -- Brad D. Smith
Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig. -- Jane Siberry
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. -- Felix Dennis
I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process. -- Joe Johnston
Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends. -- Michael Lee-Chin
What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. -- James Chanos
Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business. -- Richard Branson
Making more money will not solve your problems if cash flow management is your problem. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product. -- Nicole Fende
If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow. -- Jack Welch
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. -- Robert Kiyosaki
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow. -- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business. -- Hank Williams III
Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality. -- Amah Lambert
Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow. -- Robert Kiyosaki
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns. -- Jeff Bezos
In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life -- James C. Collins
You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage. -- Haile Gerima
I want to make that a reality, ... The idea is to create office space in the unused portions of the station to be leased, hopefully by ING. That would provide a cash flow to Amtrak. -- Thomas Carper
We generated $13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned almost $21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the March quarter. That brings cumulative payments under our capital return program to $66 billion. -- Peter Oppenheimer
It is easier to invest for cash flow during a financial crisis. So don't waste a good crisis by hiding your head in the sand. The longer the crisis lasts, the richer some people will become. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow. -- Henry Earl Singleton
We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas. -- Michael Dell
Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning. -- Jack Welch
More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field. -- Hillary Clinton
I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable. -- Warren Buffett
In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job. -- Mary Cunningham Agee
Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will get to work to determine the scope of the challenges facing Pennsylvania and begin to discuss how we can get Pennsylvania's fiscal house in order. -- Tom Wolf
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion. -- Louis Navellier
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it... -- Jack Welch
We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term. -- Jeff Bezos
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed. -- Robert H. Schuller
Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark? -- Stephen Rodrick
Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows. -- Tyra Banks
Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. -- Neal Stephenson
Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most. -- Peter Drucker

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