Balance Quote by Thomas Friedman

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

— Peter Drucker

“An unprofitable company must not be doing work useful to society. Perhaps its products are lousy or maybe is badly run. In any case,…

— Toshihiko Yamashita

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great…

— Harold Geneen

We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

— Peter Cundill

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

— Mary Archer

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

It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.

— Emily Barton

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

— Arthur Erickson

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

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

— Warren Buffett

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