Accounting Quote by Susan George

There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

— Leonard Michaels

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

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

“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

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

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

I have to say accounting almost killed me.

— Venus Williams

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

— Charlie Munger

I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw…

— Muriel Siebert

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

— Bill Bryson