#balance sheets

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

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With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

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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

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We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ↗

— Mary Archer

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