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  • There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

    Life   Success   Son  
  • 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.

    Interview with Bill O'Reilly (2002), later quoted in Larry W. Poland "Chasm: Crossing the Divide Between Hollywood and People of Faith" (p. 73), June 1, 2014.
  • Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

    "Policraticus". Book by John of Salisbury, Bk. 4, ch. 1, 1159.
  • 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.

  • When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

    Long   Lasts   Company  
  • Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”
  • 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 wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing.

  • My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

    Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.
  • Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

    Teaching   Years   Mba  
    "Peter Drucker" by Peter Starbuck, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
  • When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government valuable they may be, have no market price and, therefore, cannot be subjected to profit-and-loss accounting.

  • When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.

    Jobs   Couple   Years  
  • Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

    Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1982.
  • It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

  • 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.

    Two   Degenerates   Sides  
    Source: www.calculatedriskblog.com
  • The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened - people get status, etc. - it's impossible to get it back into the bottle.

    Stupid   Book   People  
  • I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder.

  • I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

    Years   Two   Giving  
    "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.
  • All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory.

  • If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.

    Jesus   Father   Heart  
  • To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

    Years   Desire   Kind  
    Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.103, Vintage
  • If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

  • Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

    Cost   Tables   Matter  
    Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.

    Real   Creativity   Order  
    Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
  • There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

    Leonard Michaels (2008). “The Collected Stories”, p.404, Macmillan
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants, are not really being earned. When you reach for the money, it melts away. It was never there. It [accounting for derivatives] is just disgusting. It is a sewer, and if I'm right, there will be hell to pay in due course. All of you will have to prepare to deal with a blow-up of derivative books.

    Blessed   Book   Blow  
  • Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.

  • By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

    Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.
  • There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

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