American Quote by Clayton M. Christensen

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow…

— Chris Chocola

For most businesses, America is the most important asset on their balance sheet.

— Hillary Clinton

Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not…

— Benjamin Graham

“The statement of retained earnings acts as a bridge between the income statement and the balance sheet. It takes information from the income statement,…

— Mike Piper

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

— Michael Milken

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

— Peter Drucker

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

— Michael Hudson

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

— Alex Berenson

The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period.…

— Colby Mitchell Chester

A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in…

— Carly Fiorina

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

— Ben Bernanke

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

— John C. Bogle