Accounting Quotes

139 Accounting quotes by 114 unique authors

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but… — Warren Buffett
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to… — Erich Fromm
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and… — Randy Neugebauer
I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally… — John McCain
I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and… — Bob Newhart
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records… — Harry Browne
The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money. — Robert Kiyosaki
Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up. — Charlie Munger
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how… — William Wilberforce
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand… — Henry Mintzberg
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more… — Reince Priebus
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I… — Amity Shlaes
At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the… — Karl Liebknecht
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go… — Robert Pozen
I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's… — Anna Chlumsky
Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it. — Andrew Fastow
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on… — David Foster Wallace
The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants. — Alex James
The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble.… — James Chanos
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs… — Simone Weil
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to… — John F. Kerry
In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures. — George W. Bush
Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an… — Philip Roth
When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not… — Chin-Ning Chu
Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting. — Kenneth Lay

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