Skip to content

Accounting Quote by Alan Watts

“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra…” quote by Alan Watts — Download Open image

“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Accounting Algebra Arithmetic Banking Geometry Known Mathematics

More by Alan Watts

“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an…

Image

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in…

Image

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Image

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…

Image

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Image

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Image

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

Image

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Image

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

Image

“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…

Image

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…

Image

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

Image

Explore all 460 Alan Watts quotes

More Accounting quotes

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception,…

Gregory Bateson

Image

“Outer happiness has Diminishing Marginal Utility; the more it grows, the satisfaction decreases. Resort to inner happiness.”

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

Image

Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into…

Jose Angel Gurria

Image

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

Craig Shaw Gardner

Image

“With great goals, comes the high costs; both fixed and variable. Time is the fixed cost; efforts, variable. Spend passionately.”

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

Image

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Image

“Financial statements are my novels, I am a Chartered Accountant.”

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

Image

The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

Image

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that…

Image

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their…

Chester W. Nimitz

Image

“Invest in self-improvement, be it for learning, be it for earning.”

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

Image

“In the race to scale a startup, overlooking financial planning is like to building a skyscraper on shaky ground. True growth stems from decisions…

Image

Browse all 345 Accounting quotes