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How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. -- Robert G. Allen
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. -- Maurice Strong
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! -- Ozzy Osbourne
Ability is of little account without opportunity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'. -- Charlie Munger
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. -- Paula Poundstone
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got -- Andrew Young
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. -- Joseph Addison
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey
I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts. -- Narendra Modi
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. -- Michael Bloomberg
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. -- Doris Day
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. -- Matthew Henry
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. -- Fulton J. Sheen
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice. -- Socrates
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -- Ambrose Bierce
My plan includes Dependent Care Savings Accounts to encourage savings and help families meet their needs for caring for both children and elders. -- Donald Trump
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? -- Jean Paul
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. -- Peter McWilliams
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it. -- Prince Charles
The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. -- Robert C. Solomon
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer. -- William Holden
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. -- John F. Kennedy
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. -- Harry A. Blackmun
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal. -- Grace Napolitano
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk. -- Richard Dawkins
We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs. -- Michael Steele
Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking. -- Isabel Gillies
You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul. -- Anna Quindlen
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. -- Jane Goodall
Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all? -- Dale Carnegie
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care. -- Mitch Daniels
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. -- David Hockney
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country? -- Marco Rubio
In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school. -- Kenny Marchant
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
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts. -- James Surowiecki
When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with. -- Phil Schiller
Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later. -- Adam Davidson
It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops. -- Pete Stark
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. -- Nikola Tesla
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. -- Jean Houston
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. -- Franjo Tudjman
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. -- Kenneth Grahame
I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. -- John Lydon
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. -- Sarah Palin
If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money. -- Suze Orman
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy. -- James Surowiecki
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. -- Andrew Weil
In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.' -- Suze Orman
Atemi accounts for 99% of Aikido. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Short accounts make long friends. -- Anthony Trollope
Truth isn't in accounts but in account-books. -- Josephine Tey
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England -- Queen Victoria
He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties. -- Laozi
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. -- Robert Kennedy
By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. -- Noam Chomsky
The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures. -- Amit Kalantri
Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality. -- Richard Branson
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. -- Alain de Botton
Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say. -- May Agnes Fleming
We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana. -- Mike Pence
It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts. -- Dan Ariely
I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor. -- Fran Lebowitz
[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts. -- George W. Bush
Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate. -- Mark Twain
Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. -- Bernie Sanders
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. -- Woody Allen
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender. -- Jackson Katz
Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60. -- Joe Manganiello
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men. -- Catharine MacKinnon
I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts! -- Tena Desae
Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. And we can do that. -- Hari Sreenivasan
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. -- Louise Penny
I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice. -- Sharron Angle
When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers' accounts. -- Mervyn King
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. -- Rand Paul
Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger. -- James Branch Cabell
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure. -- Barton Gellman
The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge. -- Paul Goldberger
There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that. -- Tim Harford
There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. -- Neil Gaiman
I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts. -- Virginia Foxx
Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts. -- Clara Shih
It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable! -- Jackie Mason
By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year. -- Mike McGavick
Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest. -- George W. Bush
When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance. -- Dan Ariely
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up. -- William Feather
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. -- Ira Berlin
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own. -- Omar Bongo
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. -- Henry David Thoreau
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately -- George Bernard Shaw
Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. -- Ambrose Bierce
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted. -- Bill Gates
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. -- Swami Vivekananda
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. -- Oscar Wilde
We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning. -- Jill Stein
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy -- Barack Obama
The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank. -- Ben Bernanke
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. -- Ethan Zuckerman
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics. -- Ramez Naam
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. -- Charlie Campbell
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. -- Bill Frist
Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies. -- Jean Chatzky
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. -- Raymond Aron
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. -- Denis Healey
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
Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc -- Anamika Mishra
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create. -- Carlos Castaneda
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable. -- Alasdair Gray
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man. -- Stephen King
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. -- Nelson Mandela

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