Quotes About Balance Sheets

#1. It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Mary Archer

#2. Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

Jerome Kerviel

#3. One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Henry R. Luce

#5. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

#6. Tatemae is a charming attitude when it means that everyone should look at the other way at a guest's faux pas in the tearoom; it has dangerous and unpredictable results when applied to corporate balance sheets, drug testing, and nuclear-power safety reports.

Alex Kerr

#7. U.S. companies are letting cash pile up on their balance sheets without investing in new projects because they don't have any concrete plans for the future.

Peter Thiel

#8. We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Thomas Friedman

#9. The Fed has gone about as if the problem is a shortage of liquidity. That is not the basic problem. The basic problem for the markets is that uncertainty that the balance sheets of financial firms are credible.
-Anna J. Schwartz interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, October 18-19, 2008.

John Brian Taylor

#10. Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

Gerald M. Loeb

#11. The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Chocola

#12. A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

Li Ka-shing

#13. The important thing," Henry said loudly, "Is that the balance sheets are not balanced at all."he balance sheets are not balanced at all.

B.C. Chase

#14. If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

Barry Ritholtz

#15. With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

Toshihiko Fukui

#16. Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

Diane Garnick

#17. Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

Peter Lynch

#18. Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

Peter Drucker

#19. Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.

Ben Bernanke

#20. Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

Anne Robinson

#21. When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Marc Andreessen

#22. It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

John Holdren

#23. Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration

Benjamin Graham

#24. Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Vince Cable

#25. All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

Nicolas Darvas

#26. Time machine ... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back ... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!

Dane Cook

#27. My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

Justin Kan

#28. I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

Reba McEntire

#29. I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.

Simon Sinek

#30. You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.

Laura E. Richards

#31. If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.

Fulton J. Sheen

#32. Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

#33. A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

Russell Sherman

#34. I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the custard left from supper, and I will let all of the dogs sleep in my bed.

Karen Cushman

#35. You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

Katherine Marsh

#36. I actually don't get massages very much. But Epsom salt baths are better than any massage.

Emilia Clarke

#37. Even when you're petulant and contrary, I still want you. Always, I want you. I want to give you everything. All of me. Why can't you take it? Take it.

Laurelin Paige

#38. I'm analog, Wall of Sound, old school to the core, and it's time to let my B side play.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills