Top 97 Quotes About Accountants
#1. Librarians often are wild in the sack, just like accountants.
Eve Jagger
#2. I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
John Paul DeJoria
#3. Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.
Graham Taylor
#4. Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.
Robert Reich
#5. I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.
Irene Cara
#6. A defrocked heretic accountant, Grimm had learned just enough mathemagics to be a nuisance, if not actually dangerous, and had been thrown out of the Accountants' Guild for unethical use of imaginary numbers.
Simon R. Green
#7. Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.
Jonathan Stroud
#8. I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.
Jake Lacy
#9. Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
Hannah Gadsby
#10. 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.
Richard Branson
#11. The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more.
Bob Saget
#12. It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#13. The philanthropist can never forget classes and callings. He says, with a modest swagger, 'I have invited twenty-five factory hands to tea.' If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification.
G.K. Chesterton
#14. My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!
Jonathan King
#15. The best doctor, if you're sick, may not be the one that shares your faith. We found that out to be true at Liberty with the years of struggles with the accountants and lawyers we brought in and the financial management.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#16. But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
Solomon Burke
#17. All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
John Mortimer
#18. Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.
Harry Bingham
#19. A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
Taylor Hanson
#20. For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
Shaun Alexander
#21. I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.
Kristian Bush
#23. You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
Walt Disney
#24. The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.
W.C. Fields
#25. Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
#26. The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!
Ian Astbury
#27. I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
Ann Richards
#28. I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to get the numbers to stack up after the event. So most of the things I've done I would not have done if I'd have asked the accountants to look at them before.
Richard Branson
#29. I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.
Michael Silverblatt
#30. We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.
Tony Bennett
#31. There are people who want to know about everything in the minutest detail, like accountants or lawyers. But show a toe sticking out of a hole in a sock to a poet and it is enough to produce an image of the whole world in him.
Tarkovsky
#32. I have a master's degree in medieval literature. Wyverns - or firedrakes, if you prefer - were once common in European mythology and legends." "But you . . . you're my accountant," Sarah sputtered. "Do you have any idea how many English majors are accountants?" Vivian asked with raised eyebrows.
Deborah Harkness
#33. The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.
David Plouffe
#34. My company is now in it's third year of trading with CBS accountants. I have found them 100% professional and their expertise in complex tax matters is worth its weight in gold. As a result, I have recommended them to many colleagues who are also very happy with the service provided.
Christopher Wray
#35. They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.
Sean O'Grady
#36. Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.
Robert Ludlum
#37. Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
Paul Orfalea
#38. That all salespeople are different, that all accountants are different, that each individual, no matter what his chosen profession, is unique.
Marcus Buckingham
#39. A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.
Conan O'Brien
#40. The guys at Smartax are the most renowned Accountants in the world!
Donald Trump
#41. Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.
Peter S. Prescott
#42. Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.
L. Ron Hubbard
#43. I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
Amy Heckerling
#44. I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
Chuck Schumer
#45. Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!'
Akshay Kumar
#46. 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.
Charlie Munger
#47. There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
Dorothy Fields
#48. 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.
Charlie Munger
#49. I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley
#50. While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
Walt Disney
#51. I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
Aaron Patzer
#52. If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans ...
Julianna Baggott
#53. In order to function, the people who operate such a system of drawers must be reprogrammed to stop thinking as humans and to start thinking as clerks and accountants.
Yuval Noah Harari
#54. Depressing realization sets in. Writing was invented not by human beings but by accountants. Most of the early writing systems are records of how much crap people own, how much money they have, how much money they owe, and other lowering/boastful facts of human life.
Philip Hensher
#55. We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.
Ramin Bahrani
#56. If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.
Bob Goodlatte
#57. You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys
David Foster Wallace
#58. Victor wants his children to have a better life. He encourages them to spend many years in college. Victor wants his children to become physicians, lawyers, accountants, executives, and so on. But in so encouraging them, Victor essentially discourages his children from becoming entrepreneurs.
Thomas J. Stanley
#59. No,"Ito said gently, "we will not be needing soldiers. Accountants will do nicely."
Mutsuhito frowned. "How does one storm a castle with accountants ?"
"One buys it, sir.
Natasha Pulley
#60. On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn't keep in touch. They're probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.
Craig Ferguson
#61. Actuaries are people who wanted to be accountants but didn't have the personality.
Kaz Cooke
#62. All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.
Walter Wriston
#63. I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.
Jack Kirby
#64. My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
Lisa Gardner
#65. It is not the job of mathematicians ... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
Samuil Shatunovsky
#66. From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.
Jimmy Reid
#67. At first glance, northern hardwood and hemlock forests aren't very sexy - they are the accountants of the forest world, stable and consistent.
Peter Quinby
#68. The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
Joe Eszterhas
#69. Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
Stewart Udall
#70. Most accountants will tell you the majority of small businesses run as an S Corporation.
Kevin McCarthy
#71. Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.
Richard Branson
#72. We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants ... We're all different.
Anthony Hopkins
#73. Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Warren Farrell
#74. Professionals knew that the most dangerous men in the world were accountants.
Sam Sykes
#75. The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.
George W. Bush
#76. Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
Gary Wright
#77. Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.
Christopher Lee
#78. Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Northrop Frye
#79. The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
Rick Wright
#80. Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
David Crosby
#81. I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
Randy Quaid
#83. Someone remind me why I didn't want to be an accountant when I grew up," Brock drawled.
Niko chuckled. "Because accountants don't get to make things go boom.
Lara Adrian
#84. Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants
George Osborne
#85. You have the establishment and then you have the hippies revolting against the establishment, and what you end up getting are like accountants with long hair. And that's kind of what happened with the youth movement in the '70s.
Mark Russell
#86. You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
Marco Rubio
#87. Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes that they should be paying.
George W. Bush
#88. The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents.
Bob Schaffer
#89. Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
Robert Reich
#90. I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.
Rob Marshall
#91. I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
John Lennon
#92. Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!
Jackie Mason
#93. Making money is one thing, paying tax is another.
Habeeb Akande
#94. My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.
Anne Robinson
#95. She was my accountant, so I just believed her.
John Howard
#96. Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money
Thomas Pynchon
#97. I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.
Don Rickles
