Top 100 The Accountant Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The Accountant

#1. Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

Howard Schultz

#2. Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Harold Innis

#3. 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

#4. Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!

Jackie Mason

#5. One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

Zakk Wylde

#6. You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

Vera Farmiga

#7. Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

Barry Ritholtz

#8. Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

Richard Dawkins

#9. Life is all about Takeaways from great people and Giveaways to the needy ones.

Vikrmn

#10. I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

Chuck D

#11. The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

Helen Fielding

#12. Never ever let anyone take the charge of your Guitar called LIFE. Tune your Dreams, for you are the composer of the tracks of your life. Why do you wait? What are you scared of?

Vikrmn

#13. I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

Jill Sobule

#14. I would have thought that one of the things one should learn from college is that nothing is guaranteed. Even if you study something as vocational as accountancy, you still may end up not getting a job as an accountant.

Rebecca Mead

#15. At the end of the life you have to live your day alone and vice-versa.

Vikrmn

#16. The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

Tom Rath

#17. Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess
native and to the manor born
and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an
an accountant!

Regina Doman

#18. Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to.

Vikrmn

#19. In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

Loretta Lynch

#20. Best Quote of the day: Don't just sit and read the Quote of the day; Implement it.

Vikrmn

#21. Say your heart out.. work that dream out.. for the time won't be back again.

Vikrmn

#22. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.

Vikrmn

#23. VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet?
BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant.

Tom Stoppard

#24. Dream? What it is? If you realise it, it's everything; if not, continue the slumber.

Vikrmn

#25. I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

Robert Lefkowitz

#26. With the touch of wisdom, comes the end of fears.

Vikrmn

#27. Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.

Don McLean

#28. As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

Jerome Rothenberg

#29. Last night, John McCain said that under the Democratic health care plan, a bureaucrat would stand between you and your doctor, as opposed to the Republican health care plan, where an accountant would stand between you and your health care.

Jay Leno

#30. If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?

Vikrmn

#31. One of the way to get attention is to write a book titled, How to get attention.

Vikrmn

#32. The first step to success is knowing that you failed to do something because many people don't even realise. Second step is to take a first step towards making your dreams true.

Vikrmn

#33. You are known by the thoughts you seed.

Vikrmn

#34. The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, Who are you?

Vikrmn

#35. Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.

Vikrmn

#36. Either you learn from or you are taught by; the PEOPLE.

Vikrmn

#37. Forget the pain and the one who caused it, but not the lesson you learnt.

Vikrmn

#38. The success is like an umbrella. It has wires in it called faith. It has no meaning if there is no rain and storm called ebbs and flows of life.

Vikrmn

#39. I used to prefer cash but I'm more and more drawn to cards because with certain cards you get the full lists which you can then pass on to your accountant so you don't have to do the whole receipt, receipt, receipt thing as it's all itemised.

Lemar

#40. The only person standing between your dreams and your success is none but YOU.. so all you need is to push YOURSELF.. Towards your goals.. to make it happen.

Vikrmn

#41. There is only one mother in this world who is the best one; the one that every kid has got.

Vikrmn

#42. You outlive your wife, then your colleagues and friends, then your accountant and the building doorman. ou no longer attend the opera, because the human bladder can only endure so much. Social engagements require strategy and hearing aid calibrations. pg 269

Dominic Smith

#43. I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Bob Newhart

#44. I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

Douglas Preston

#45. COURAGE is the only currency; more you spend, richer you become; by earning the RESPECT.

Vikrmn

#46. The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

Milton Berle

#47. Every vision has its own rainbow; The day you realise your vision you'll see your rainbow.

Vikrmn

#48. Anti-corruption policies are like cancer curing treatments. They affect good cells, say good people, in the short run; but make the life of a nation flourish in the long term.

Vikrmn

#49. He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.

Kinky Friedman

#50. A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow

Miles Thomas

#51. Life is like a guitar and the combination of chords are called moments. Playing them is the called living the moments.

Vikrmn

#52. Get the hell out of here. You're an accountant? You?" He must be joking . Beautiful and highly intelligent? I feel like I've found a unicorn.

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J. Daniels

#53. Who shot at you? Nick asked, taking in the stunned expressions on his staffers' faces. Why couldn't he have fallen for an accountant?

Marie Force

#54. So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

Robert Scheer

#55. Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora. He kept his custom eye wear on and made himself comfortable, looking more like a Wall Street accountant than the cold killer he'd become ...

Peprah Boasiako

#56. I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

Daniel Goleman

#57. Freedom of speech doesn't mean threatening the freedom of others.

Vikrmn

#58. Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

Harvey MacKay

#59. May your P&L account of deeds for humanity be in profits; for you have to present the your Balance Sheet on the Judgment Day.

Vikrmn

#60. My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

Kevin J. Anderson

#61. There was nothing whatever wrong with Mr. Stone, except that he possessed all the necessary qualifications for a certified public accountant: he did not like people, he was quick with numbers, he had no sense of humor, and he was butt-headed.

Harper Lee

#62. It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1

Yuval Noah Harari

#63. No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

Donald Sutherland

#64. My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Glenda Jackson

#65. The moment to make your dreams come true is day before tomorrow, same time, called NOW.

Vikrmn

#66. Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO's who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google's algorithm to bring you traffic that makes you thousands of dollars bad?

Michael Gray

#67. Power of dreams is not measured by the frequency of dreaming, but by speed of actions to make them come true.

Vikrmn

#68. It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'

Alain De Botton

#69. They say well begun half done; but Perseverance on the way down takes you up to a great end.

Vikrmn

#70. It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build India,' it was all about being an accountant, a lawyer, an engineer. So it was this idea that professionals would build the country.

Shekhar Kapur

#71. Don't shout the dreams out.. let it be done by your deeds; stay calm and fly high.

Vikrmn

#72. The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.

Vikrmn

#73. There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

Pete Hamill

#74. Problems are like your own shadow. If you look at them you will miss the sunshine. So.. Turn back.. towards the light.. and go on.

Vikrmn

#75. When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don't know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It's not all about temperament.

Richard Greenberg

#76. Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won't show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

Vikrmn

#77. Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that.

Vikrmn

#78. And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

Robert Scheer

#79. When Dad was a kid, he wanted to be a lumberjack, but unfortunately he'd been cursed with the build of an accountant and the brain of an astrophysicist. These qualities had combined to make him the third-most-visited orthodontist in northern New Jersey.

Kieran Scott

#80. Give it a try.. for you are born to fly high; don't sit on the shores, don't wait and sigh.

Vikrmn

#81. With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant.

Michael Mina

#82. From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Vikrmn

#83. If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Jack Welch

#84. I have a different GOD. I see it in the smile of others. My worship to make people happy. Love is my Religion.

Vikrmn

#85. I was never a Certified Public Accountant ... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Bob Newhart

#86. See the world from another perspective and things would be simple.

Vikrmn

#87. Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are.

Vikrmn

#88. You are the best at life and shine when you just be YOURSELF. Let nobody tell you that you are not capable of doing what you believe in.

Vikrmn

#89. Life kicks you on the face, especially the moment you take the helmet off your head to stop and rest.

Vikrmn

#90. A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.

Freida Pinto

#91. What the fuck? Didn't you tell him you had a boyfriend?" "I did. He asked if I loved you." "Who is this guy? What's he do?" "He's an accountant in Boston." "An accountant? Jesus Christ, didn't you tell him you're dating a fucking war correspondent?

Michael Hastings

#92. The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life.

Mike Bickle