Accountants Quote by Richard Branson

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

— Chris LeDoux

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

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted…

— Nick Nurse

Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

— Hannah Gadsby

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

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they…

— Kofi Annan

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

— Cormac McCarthy

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

— Tom Rath

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

— Warren Buffett

“Underlying all this activity—in the customhouses, on the wharves, in every place of business—were numbers. Merchants measured out their wares and negotiated prices; customs…

— Keith J. Devlin

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

Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have…

— Akshay Kumar