Accounting Quotes
139 quotes by 114 authors
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Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
— Felix Dennis
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle…
— Alan Greenspan
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Accounting is the language of business.
— Warren Buffett
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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
— Warren Buffett
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There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to…
— Rudolf Bultmann
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There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates…
— Neal Boortz
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There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our…
— Bennie Thompson
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Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is…
— Bennie Thompson
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In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of…
— Jeffrey Skilling
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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
— Warren Buffett
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While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment…
— Mark Udall
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Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where…
— Michael Pollan
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There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.
— Leonard Michaels
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I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give…
— Andrea Dworkin
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There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
— James Crumley
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I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.
— Robert Kennedy
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When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we…
— Linda Gregg
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I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only…
— Jean Shepherd
Who Wrote These Accounting Quotes
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