Pacioli Quotes

#1. Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

Herbert J. Muller

#2. The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in his book 'De divina proportione', written in 1509.

Midhat Gazale

#3. Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.

Emma Raveling

#4. The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.

Luca Pacioli

#5. A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

Paul Johnson

#6. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Charles Bukowski

#7. All the creditors must appear in the ledger at the right hand side, and all the debtors at the left. All entries made in the ledger have to be double entries - that is, if you make one creditor, you must make someone debtor

Luca Pacioli

#8. As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Marjane Satrapi

#9. In understanding what beauty is, we shall know love, for the understanding of beauty is the peace of the heart.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Arthur Ashe

#11. Simple is good." - Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets

Montgomery J. Granger

#12. Without mathematics there is no art.

Luca Pacioli

#13. Sometimes it's as important to prove there is no answer to a question as it is to answer it.

Keigo Higashino