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Accounting is the language of business. -- Warren Buffett
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. -- Jean Shepherd
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. -- David Letterman
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. -- Thomas Sowell
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. -- Kenneth Lay
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 to know. -- Susan George
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. -- John F. Kennedy
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? -- J. C. Watts
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity. -- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it. -- Andrew Fastow
Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything. -- Julian Robertson
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. -- Bernard Ebbers
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. -- Mary Browne
Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. -- Will Rogers
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. -- Fernando Pessoa
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. -- Alex Berenson
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. -- Diane Garnick
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness. -- Helen Foster Snow
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
Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations. -- Tom Golisano
I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money. -- Juliana Hatfield
Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, social security credits for early childcare, tax credits, and quality early childhood education. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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
Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind. -- Charlie Munger
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. -- Randy Neugebauer
I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees. -- Tom Golisano
Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so. -- Raymond Berry
While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment. -- Mark Udall
By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers. -- Tom Golisano
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences. -- Charlie Munger
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 is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable. -- Warren Buffett
I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting. -- Anna Chlumsky
I actually never acted on "Deadwood." I have meetings all the time where people look at my IMDb page and see that I played the part of "Accounting Clerk" on Deadwood. Actually, I was the accounting clerk for production of "Deadwood." -- Anthony Jeselnik
Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff. -- Emeril Lagasse
At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access. -- I. King Jordan
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. -- John Buchanan Robinson
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 it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention. -- Charlie Munger
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time. -- Friedrich St. Florian
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting. -- Bernard Ebbers
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived. -- William Wilberforce
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential. -- Ban Ki-moon
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. -- Henry Mintzberg
Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.' -- 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
We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates. -- Marc Faber
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. -- Ben Stein
The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. -- James Chanos
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security. -- Reince Priebus
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories! -- James Belushi
One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, 'My accounting book is different from yours.' Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married. -- David Schweikert
The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. -- Donald Berwick
There is no accounting for tastes. -- Ann Radcliffe
Creativity is great-but not in accounting. -- Charles Scott
There is no accounting for human beings. -- Mark Twain
Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting. -- Kenneth Lay
I have to say accounting almost killed me. -- Venus Williams
Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children. -- Robert Kennedy
There's no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy. -- Leonard Adleman
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting. -- Trevanian
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). -- Alan Watts
What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy. -- Abigail Adams
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. -- Warren Buffett
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct. -- Bethany McLean
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time. -- James Crumley
I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting. -- Bernard Ebbers
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. -- Rita Mae Brown
To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage. -- Charlie Munger
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. -- Claude Bissell
To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics. -- Warren Buffett
How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks? -- David Schweikert
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet? -- Ryan Lilly
The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world. -- Leonard Michaels
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. -- Warren Buffett
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. -- Nancy Gibbs
Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting. -- Stephen Metcalf
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. -- Peter Heller
Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up. -- Charlie Munger
In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures. -- George W. Bush
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are. -- Andrew Tobias
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation. -- Warren Buffett
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same. -- Cormac McCarthy
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. -- James Rickards
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. -- Peter Drucker
If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone. -- Jaume Collet-Serra
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption. -- Ben Bernanke
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film. -- Alex Gibney
There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police. -- Franklin P. Adams
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
I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). -- Annie Dillard
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. -- Toni Morrison
The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money. -- Robert Kiyosaki
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting. -- Iain Banks
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting. -- Charlie Munger
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office. -- Warren Buffett
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting. -- Arthur Laffer
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. -- Ron Lewis
Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable. -- Achim Steiner
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon. -- Louis Sullivan
There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books. -- Marc Cohn
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe -- Saul Perlmutter
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe. -- Saul Perlmutter
Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run... -- Margaret Atwood
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. -- John Rawls
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field. -- Jane Smiley
On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life. -- Patricia Heaton
Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen. -- Bennie Thompson
Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade. -- Charlie Munger
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will. -- Andrea Dworkin
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 in the towel on bad accounting. -- Muriel Siebert
Happiness is Starting your study with 3 principles of accounting, then your profession, with 3 principles of life CHALLENGE it, ACHIEVE it, Loop it. Happy to be a CA, Happy CA day. -- Vikrmn
For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive. -- Arianna Huffington
There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. -- Jane Kenyon
Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony -- Alan Watts

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