Accounting Quote by Warren Buffett

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

— Tilman J. Fertitta

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

— Warren Buffett

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

— James B. Stewart

Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

— Diane Garnick

“A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.”

— Aswath Damodaran

“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

“On March 31, 2016, Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White said this to the students of Stanford Law School: Nearly all venture…

— Brian de Haaff

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

— Leonard Michaels

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

We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art…

— Seth Klarman

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

— Alex Berenson