Accounting Quote by Adam Davidson

It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic

— Russell Baker

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for…

— Philip Slater

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

— Marcel Duchamp

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy…

— Laurence J. Peter

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

— Eli Broad

We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.

— Ben Stein

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“a first step, most Americans earning median incomes will find that serious progress is made at first through the intelligent and intentional application of…

— Scott Trench

There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

— Leonard Michaels

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses…

— Anonymous