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  • Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant. -- Vikrmn
  • CA means Charismatic Amalgamation of great experiences of life. I am a Chartered Accountant. -- Vikrmn
  • Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. -- Elizabeth McCracken
  • I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. -- Bob Newhart
  • I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. -- Bob Newhart
  • If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant. -- Janet Jackson
  • If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. -- Ray Romano
  • I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. -- Chuck D
  • Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one? -- Jackie Mason
  • People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. -- Charles Lyell
  • The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. -- Milton Berle
  • Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. -- Irene Rosenfeld
  • I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. -- Aubrey McClendon
  • I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant. -- Bob Newhart
  • After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant. -- Bill Dedman
  • I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music. -- Zarin Mehta
  • I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. -- Omar Epps
  • Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards. -- Peter Tork
  • If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. -- Mario Cuomo
  • No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. -- Donald Sutherland
  • My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success. -- Grace Slick
  • One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months. -- Zakk Wylde
  • I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me. -- Matthew Broderick
  • I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. -- Arundhati Roy
  • Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet. -- John Doolittle
  • My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate. -- Daniel H. Pink
  • My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it. -- Zubin Mehta
  • A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!' -- Kevin Nealon
  • My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people. -- Maeve Binchy
  • She was my accountant, so I just believed her. -- John Howard
  • My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. -- Umberto Eco
  • I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant. -- Laurie Notaro
  • I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math. -- Rob Marshall
  • My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant. -- Bruno Tonioli
  • No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock. -- Heston Blumenthal
  • Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist. -- Russell Banks
  • My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it. -- Anne Robinson
  • I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him. -- J. K. Rowling
  • My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. -- Glenda Jackson
  • As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world. -- Marta Andreasen
  • I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. -- Don Rickles
  • I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there. -- Jake Lacy
  • Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable! -- Jackie Mason
  • Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do. -- Justin Allgaier
  • Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it. -- Jean Chatzky
  • An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future. -- F. Ross Johnson
  • Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity. -- Bill Vaughan
  • I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant. -- Nora Roberts
  • If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant. -- Renato Canova
  • It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances. -- Vicki Robin
  • If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? -- Jack Welch
  • Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. -- Harold Innis
  • Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant. -- Samuel West
  • The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. -- Tom Rath
  • My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York. -- Phil Jackson
  • 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
  • While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant. -- George Ryan
  • I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer. -- James Vincent McMorrow
  • Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. -- John Osborne
  • Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's. -- Ryan Miller
  • When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out. -- Patsy Rodenburg
  • Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff. -- Anne Robinson
  • Someone remind me why I didn't want to be an accountant when I grew up," Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. "Because accountants don't get to make things go boom. -- Tina St. John
  • I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training. -- Joanne Harris
  • In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant. -- Lucia Puenzo
  • If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key? -- Nick Carter
  • Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids -- Harvey Mackay
  • I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me. -- Bob Newhart
  • When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought for a long time and said, 'Yes, death would help'. -- Robert Morley
  • I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now. -- Richard C. Armitage
  • I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now. -- Richard C. Armitage
  • Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds. -- Jim Stanford
  • Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that. -- Jay Leno
  • The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life. -- Mike Bickle
  • I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. -- Daniel Goleman
  • I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican. -- Justin Townes Earle
  • Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk. -- Howard Schultz
  • I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper. -- John Lennon
  • I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?" -- Fetty Wap
  • There's not a rocket scientist, not a doctor, not an accountant that 30 years in goes, "Oh, now I'm getting it. Now I can't wait to get back out there because I'm better than ever." -- Jay Mohr
  • You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures. -- Vera Farmiga
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