Accounting Quotes

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Randy Neugebauer

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
--Accounting Quotes by Bernie Ebbers

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Anna Chlumsky

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Juliana Hatfield

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
--Accounting Quotes by Bernie Ebbers

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.
--Accounting Quotes by Akira Mori

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Charlie Munger

I have made the tough accountings, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
--Accounting Quotes by Donald Trump

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
--Accounting Quotes by Richard Branson

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
--Accounting Quotes by Felix Dennis

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial accounting-making
--Accounting Quotes by Alan Greenspan

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
--Accounting Quotes by David Letterman

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
--Accounting Quotes by Thomas Sowell

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Emeril Lagasse

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Brian Ferneyhough

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Bob Newhart

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Jean Shepherd

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Ron Lewis

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
--Accounting Quotes by Merry Browne

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.
--Accounting Quotes by John Buchanan Robinson

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
--Accounting Quotes by Kenneth Lay

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
--Accounting Quotes by David Letterman

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.
--Accounting Quotes by Jim Costa

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.
--Accounting Quotes by John F. Kennedy

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Susan George

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.
--Accounting Quotes by Mark Udall