Business Quote by Brian Alexander

“the government alleged that the company was little more than a pyramid scheme built upon misleading promises of riches to prospective distributors, many of…

— Jane Mayer

“Monomoy sent what was left of Lancaster’s once-grand, 110-year-old employer into bankruptcy court while it made off with millions and the employees walked their…

— Brian Alexander

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible…

— Benjamin Graham

“A year earlier, no company had been accorded more faith than Enron; by late November, none was trusted less. And so, a gasping gurgle,…

— Roger Lowenstein

“it wasn’t so much the companies’ strategies that bled them dry as it was the billions of dollars they had borrowed to put their…

— Paddy Hirsch

“overcapacity eventually destroys profits as manufacturers are more likely to make marginal cost-based decisions to regain volume.”

— Greg Thain

“Munger opined that many corporations are run stupidly, forcing things down from headquarters, worrying about quarterly profits. For”

— Daniel Pecaut

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

— Vladimir Putin

“Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money”

— Thomas Pynchon

“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD DEBT. Some”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“For me, this is exactly what’s so pernicious about the morality of debt: the way that financial imperatives constantly try to reduce us all,…

— David Graeber