Liquidity Quotes

“Money is good. And the more, the better.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“When businesses are having liquidity problems, bartering can be a viable solution.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Money is better when you have more of it. With money, enough is not enough. You should always have more than enough money - an abundance of money. Look at nature, nature never only makes enough of a good thing. It always makes more than enough. And there’s no scarcity or lack. Everything in nature experiences more than enough.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“A nimble and adaptable company with healthy cash reserves is better positioned to thrive even through unpredictable circumstances.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“A system that utilizes bartering and smart liquidity is superior to a debt based system in many ways.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Liquidity equals freedom.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“By monitoring liquidity metrics, board members can ensure the company has sufficient cash on hand to pay its bills, meet payroll, and invest in growth opportunities.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“Liquidity is essential in business. So many businesses fail because of a failure to retain liquidity. But the principle is simple - to get things done, businesses need access to cash and capital. And without that access to cash and capital the business will fail because it won't be able to find it's operations.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“A system that utilizes bartering and smart liquidity is superior to a debt based system.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow. Liquidity facilitates liquidity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow and liquidity facilitates liquidity. Rainforests dont run out of water because of the cycles and relationships between the elements in the rainforest ecosystem. Business ecosystems can facilitate liquidity in the same way.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“As cryptocurrency becomes more widespread, we'll have a world where money is easy to access, easy to move, easy to send, easy to receive, and easy to invest.... And we'll be able to do all of this globally. This means for example I can send Eth to my friend in India or my business partner in Panama with ease instantly.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“If you have wealth without liquidity, you're still in bondage. If you have capital without currency, you're still in bondage. Liquidity equals freedom.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“In business, it's very important to protect your businesses income! Because a business with no income is not really a business at all. As long as the business has income - even if margins are slim, you can find a way to cut expenses, improve cash flow and improve it's profitability. Tight cash flow can be better leveraged than no cash flow. But if you make choices that jeopardize or forefeit the income, because you're frustrated with slim margins, then you forfeit that opportunity. Work with those slim margins while you work on widening them.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Sometimes the economy is unpredictable. Sometimes markets and industries are unpredictable. Sometimes unpredictable things happen that could impact the company. That's why your company needs to have a healthy amount of liquidity; accessible cash. And that's why the company needs to be nimble and able to adapt. A nimble and adaptable company with healthy cash reserves is better positioned to thrive even through unpredictable circumstances.”
― Hendrith Smith

“When your company is buying from my company and my company is buying from your company, there's flow. And if a bunch of our companies are doing that, then that flow can be leveraged toward liquidity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“When you're buying from me and I'm buying from you and we're all buying from each other, there's flow within the ecosystem. And businesses in our ecosystem can tap into a portion of that flow to facilitate liquidity for their specific business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“If you'd like to gain a new understanding of financial liquidity, get into gardening.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Budgeting for liquidity is important. You have to include liquidity into the budget. Otherwise you could end up selling your farm in winter to buy someone else’s summer crops just to survive. Then come next planting season you’re starting from scratch.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Excess liquidity is the leading source of all bubbles.”
― Naved Abdali

“Liquidity collapse is not the sign of the market bottom. It is instead a sign that the bottom is not far.”
― Naved Abdali

“A liquidity crisis is ended by government actions and by government actions only. When you see that governments are providing liquidity support or have started talking about it, it is the time to start buying.”
― Naved Abdali

“[T]he ABCP market was built on a fatal flaw: a significant mismatch between the duration of the underlying assets (long-term) and the duration of the paper itself (short-term). While this structure is not unusual -- banks use it all the time -- the crucial difference is that banks have a strong liquidity provider in the event of a problem: the Bank of Canada. The trusts, however, were left in limbo.”
― Paul Halpern, Back from the Brink: Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis

“So why didn't ABCP investors -- at least the large institutional investors -- have a better grasp of the uncertain nature of market disruption triggers as defined under Canadian-style liquidity? Probably because the contracts were not available for review to investors wishing to purchase ABCP -- yet another example of the lack of transparency surrounding the distribution and sale of this product.”
― Paul Halpern, Back from the Brink: Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis

“Whether it's a usurer's usury or an actuary's actuality, they all sail on the liquid of liquidity.”
― Stewart Stafford

“When an economy or market is flushed with excess liquidity, people start to invest in unrealistic possibilities.”
― Naved Abdali

“In the bull season, you trade attention, not the fundamentals. Attention equals liquidity and it is your duty to follow the money.”
― Olawale Daniel