Accounting Quote by Leonard Michaels

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

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

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

— Gerhard Herzberg

Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating.…

— Michael Pollan

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

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

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

— Bill Bryson

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