Accountants Quotes

• I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

  Elvis Presley

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

  Charles Lyell

  Money, Credit, Debit

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• I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Way, Businessman, Wanted

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• Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.

  Kofi Annan

  Thinking, Goal, Long

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Political, Bankers

  "'I Do What I Do Because I Have To'". ZNet Interview, www.outlookindia.com. May 28, 2003.

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• I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cousin, Thinking, Mum

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• Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

  Paul Orfalea

  Business, Past, Leader

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• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Jail

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future.

  F. Ross Johnson

  Past, Men, Ass

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• Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

  Jackie Mason

  Kids, Wanted, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

  Stewart Udall

  Life, Business, Long

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• 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

  Kids, Taxation, Taxes Funny

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• Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

  Justin Allgaier

  Race, Car, Challenges

  "A CSJ Conversation with Justin Allgaier". Interview with CSJ, christiansportsjournal.com. March 10, 2017.

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• I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

  Bob Newhart

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

  Charlie Munger

  Business, Power, Civilization

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

  Milton Berle

  Teacher, Retirement, Dollars

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• If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

  Janet Jackson

  Singing, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

  Ed Helms

  Giving, Advice, Bags

  "The Daily Show". TV Series, m.imdb.com. 1996-.

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• It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

  Samuel West

  Running, Circus, Hard

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• Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

  Peter Tork

  Musician, Energy, Too Late

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• 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

  Jobs, Feet, Nurse

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• All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Flower, Aggravation

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• If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

  Ray Romano

  Fathers Day, Hug, Accounting

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• In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

  Ken Curtis

  Break A Leg, People, Legs

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