Accountants Quote by Charlie Munger

Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants,…

— Charlie Munger

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they…

— Richard Branson

Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

— Hannah Gadsby

Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!

— Jackie Mason

I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it for six…

— John Pinette

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

— Stewart Udall

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

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

— Charlie Munger

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

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…

— David Foster Wallace

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and…

— Chris Cornell

The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

— Theodore Stevens