Accounting Quotes
139 Accounting quotes by 114 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.
— Charlie Munger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.
— Andrew Fastow
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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
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The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.
— Alex James
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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
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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
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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
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In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.
— George W. Bush
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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
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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
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Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.
— Kenneth Lay
Who Wrote These Accounting Quotes
114 authors contributed a total of 139 Accounting Quotes, led by these top contributors: