Quotes About Bookkeeping

#1. Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of " capital ." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.

Werner Sombart

#2. The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Edward I. Koch

#3. For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.

Peter Medawar

#4. Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

Thomas Berry

#5. The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

Alex Epstein

#6. To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Cliff Shaw

#7. Kennedy: You mean it's not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life's red ink certainly outweighed the black. Kennedy:

Peter Kreeft

#8. Destiny has ordained that from the day of my birth I should never know a whole happy day.' Datini's meticulously kept account books span almost fifty years and clearly show the transition from single- to double-entry bookkeeping. His

Jane Gleeson-White

#9. Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Dee Hock

#10. Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

Janusz Korczak

#11. Lottie did everything the old fashioned way, including the bookkeeping, which was fine with me since I knew nothing about accounting software anyway. To me, spreadsheets was what I did on Saturday mornings after washing my bed linen.

Kate Collins

#12. 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

#13. Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.

Elaine De Kooning

#14. I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Katherine Anne Porter

#15. When humans' nerves detect big and small stimuli at the same time, they ignore the smaller one.

Fuminori Nakamura

#16. Never complain, never explain, get the thing done and let them howl.

Nellie L. McClung

#17. Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one;
all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

Cassandra Clare

#18. Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

Howard Rheingold

#19. The demand for good bookkeepers is at an all time high as more people make the leap into self-employment each year and need competent bookkeeping help.

Sylvia Jaumann

#20. Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

Robin S

#21. It's empty. Duane swore harsh enough to make a sailor blush, calling into question not only the suspect's parentage, but that somehow duck's were involved.

Andrew Grey