Quotes About Cost Accounting

#1. Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#2. National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon.

Louis Sullivan

#3. 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

#4. Forty years of emphasizing accounting-style control over things has seen American businesses do little or nothing to develop the capabilities of people. Workers have been viewed as a source of energy and cost, not as a source of ideas.

H. Thomas Johnson

#5. I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves ... only about you.

Jean Shepherd

#6. Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.

Kevin Hart

#7. But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

Michael Pollan

#8. The funniest guy I've ever worked with - it's just one of those things, again, where we look at each other and just laugh - is Jimmy Byrnes from 'Wiseguy.' Jimmy - we can't be in the same room together. He knows he can make me laugh just by looking at me.

Jonathan Banks

#9. Many of our traditional partners are positioning themselves as strong regional players ... Shell is a global player. And as the global gas markets develop ... we will be creating a global strategic partnership.

Alexey Miller

#10. The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.

Leonard Lance

#11. Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Fred Allen

#12. Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run ...

Margaret Atwood

#13. Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

Gabriel Iglesias

#14. A godly woman's true adornment can't be bought at a department store or acquired in the beauty shop.

Tony Evans

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

Peter Drucker

#16. All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#17. I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

Jewel

#18. Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

Warren Buffett