Absolutes Quote by Charlie Munger

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

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard…

— Charlie Munger

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

— Charles Scott

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

— Charlie Munger

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

— Gerhard Herzberg

“As the economist Herman Daly once put it: “The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.”

— Bill Bryson

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

— Leonard Michaels

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

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

— Cormac McCarthy

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves…

— Owen Feltham

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

— Brian Ferneyhough