Accounting Quote by Trevanian Download Open image “Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.” — Trevanian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounting Chess Philosophy Western
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. -NeSha — Ralph Charell Copy Share Image
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized... — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter,… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Your scorn for mediocrity blinds you to its vast primitive power. You stand in the glare of your own brilliance, unable to see into… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps,… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life. — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.” — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.” — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul." "Oh?" "Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid." "And treacherous… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“Outer happiness has Diminishing Marginal Utility; the more it grows, the satisfaction decreases. Resort to inner happiness.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well. — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
“With great goals, comes the high costs; both fixed and variable. Time is the fixed cost; efforts, variable. Spend passionately.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Financial statements are my novels, I am a Chartered Accountant.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
“Invest in self-improvement, be it for learning, be it for earning.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
“In the race to scale a startup, overlooking financial planning is like to building a skyscraper on shaky ground. True growth stems from decisions… — Jason Hishmeh Copy Share Image
