Balance Quote by Mary Archer

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

— Griffith Edwards

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

— Brian Perkins

Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading,…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

I particularly like Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Both writers have wit and imagination and the breadth of stories they tell coupled with extraordinary…

— Michael Ball

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

— Henry R. Luce

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable…

— Grace Hopper

I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief…

— George Soros

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as…

— Paul Hawken

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

— Diane Garnick

I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our…

— Warren Buffett

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

— Russell Sherman