A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he…

What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that…

— B. C. Forbes

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

— Mary Archer

The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations…

— Charles Hugh Smith

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

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable…

— Grace Hopper

I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief…

— George Soros

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as…

— Paul Hawken

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

— Diane Garnick

I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our…

— Warren Buffett

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

— James Rickards

I believe Indian banks have a strong funding profile with largely deposit-funded balance sheets, a large physical presence to cater to the needs of…

— Chanda Kochhar

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

— Russell Sherman

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…

— Donald Trump, Jr

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the…

— Paul Hawken

A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

— Li Ka-shing