Accounting Quotes

139 quotes by 114 authors

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
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
Accounting is the language of business. — Warren Buffett
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation. — Warren Buffett
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
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
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
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
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
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
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett
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
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
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world. — Leonard Michaels
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
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time. — James Crumley
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
Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children. — Robert Kennedy
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
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

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