Quotes About Balance Sheet

#1. I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

Donald Trump Jr.

#2. it is better to understand the balance-sheet of one's own life than of the corn trade.

Seneca.

#3. A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

Russell Sherman

#4. We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

Michael Bennett

#5. From a broader money view perspective, however, September 2008 was the moment when the Fed moved from lender of last resort to dealer of last resort, in effect taking the collapsing wholesale money market onto its own balance sheet. But in the heat of the moment, no one noticed.

Perry G. Mehrling

#6. Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

Ryan Lilly

#7. It's not equality that counts, it's reprocity that counts. Love is not like a balance sheet. There's no such thing as double-entry accounting when it comes to love.

Debra Ollivier

#8. The confidence of the entire global financial system rests on the U.S. dollar. Confidence in the dollar rests on the solvency of the Fed's balance sheet. And that solvency rests on a thin sliver of . . . gold.

James Rickards

#9. Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

Alex Berenson

#10. Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

Peter Cundill

#11. Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.

Emil Cioran

#12. Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Harold Geneen

#13. What was one more debit of mortification when my balance sheet was already in the red

Penny Reid

#14. This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

Andrew Cherng

#15. A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

Gordon Bethune

#16. While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

Paul Ryan

#17. We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

Peter Cundill

#18. (We cut back on expenses today to yield a better balance sheet next year. We avoid ice cream today for a better body next year.)

Chip Heath

#19. It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Henry R. Luce

#20. Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

Ashwin Sanghi

#21. I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Ashwin Sanghi

#22. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

Warren Buffett

#23. All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

Nicolas Darvas

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

Patrick Whitesell

#25. American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Clayton M Christensen

#26. If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

Manmohan Singh

#27. If your position or job is on the liability side of the balance sheet, you can be looked at as a risk rather than an asset to your employer. Another reason to be an entrepreneur. - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

Chris Lutz

#28. Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

Grace Hopper

#29. When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

Vince Cable

#30. I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink.

Cindy Cruciger

#31. The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Henry Ford

#32. The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited annually by an outside auditor and made public. Every security we hold is listed on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Janet Yellen

#33. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt.

John Thune

#34. Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

Frederic Morton

#35. The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.

A.G. Street

#36. We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

Vince Cable

#37. In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

Michael Milken

#38. Education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.

Greg Mortenson

#39. One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.

Alan Greenspan

#40. May your P&L account of deeds for humanity be in profits; for you have to present the your Balance Sheet on the Judgment Day.

Vikrmn

#41. In both the U.S. and Europe, the budget and balance sheet numbers do not work. When 'off-balance sheet' promises are taken into account, the U.S. and most countries of the Euro zone are insolvent.

Paul Singer

#42. A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind.

Carly Fiorina

#43. What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ...

Rohinton Mistry

#44. For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.

Darren L Johnson

#45. With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

David Duffield

#46. In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

#47. The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.

Nelson Peltz

#48. No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance sheet, which shows assets and liability. That is also true for a country.

Joseph Stiglitz

#49. Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

James Rickards

#50. You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

Bill McKibben

#51. From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Vikrmn

#52. The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.

Ben Bernanke

#53. Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

Kerry Stokes

#54. On average, it takes as much as $100 million in paid media for a brand to be a household name in America. Marketing partnerships are the best form of off-balance sheet financing one can ever find. Smart startups use this technique to scale their companies and build their brand equity.

Jay Samit

#55. We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

Mitch Daniels