Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock. — Heston Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world. — Marta Andreasen Copy Share Image
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind… — Shaun Alexander Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought for a… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
My company is now in it's third year of trading with CBS accountants. I have found them 100% professional and their expertise… — Christopher Wray Copy Share Image
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The… — Steve Odland Copy Share Image
Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“My father could have been a great comedian but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it. — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents. — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
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