Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from… — Beto O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
People are arguing whether Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is anti-semitic. Well, whether it is or it isn't, it doesn't matter,… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Oil production, energy production are growing, though the latter has gone down by about 1 percent here, I believe... By the way,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“If others qualify, it's a great going; if an auditor qualifies, it's not.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
For Germany, Poland is now a more important trade partner than Russia. With respect to history, our peoples will require more time… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. — James Rickards Copy Share Image
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image