Accounting Business Quotes

#1. Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#2. I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.

Kathryn Stockett

#3. The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.

Jim Cooper

#4. As the economist Herman Daly once put it: The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.

Bill Bryson

#5. 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

#6. Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

Warren Buffett

#7. Better to stop one paddle short than one too far.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#8. In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

Louis Farrakhan

#9. I always love training at crazy times - it's an edge I'm creating over everyone else.

Tim Tebow

#10. 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

#11. Accounting is the language of business.

Warren Buffett

#12. Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

Bennie Thompson

#13. A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

Burton G. Malkiel

#14. The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Warren Buffett

#15. She had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.

David Halberstam

#16. 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

#17. 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.

Jim Costa

#18. 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

#19. If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.

Dani Rodrik

#20. the oil-producing countries hate our guts and would like to

Catherine Coulter

#21. In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

Jeffrey Skilling

#22. The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.

Li Ka-shing

#23. In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Warren Buffett