Business Quote by Bill Bryson

“Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?”

— Ryan Lilly

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

— Stewart Udall

Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a…

— Charlie Munger

“People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive audits, but…

— Eric Ries

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

— Leonard Michaels

Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for…

— Charlie Munger

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

— Bethany McLean

“financial transactions have displaced the production of goods or services as the source of private fortunes, distorting the value we place upon different kinds…

— Tony Judt

“Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most…

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need…

— Susan George

“Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow”

— Anonymous