Accountants Quotes - Page 5

• Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.

  Richard Branson

  Reality, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Business, Philosophy

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• Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Jobs, Heart

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• Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.

  Anne Robinson

  Long, Saving, Stuff

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.

  Fred Reichheld

  Book, Names, Differences

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• The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more.

  Bob Saget

  Years, People, Guy

  "Bob Saget talks dirty about The Aristocrats". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. July 25, 2005.

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• It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

  Joan Chen

  Reading, Artist, Moon

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.

  Marco Pierre White

  Reality, Years, Romance

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Thinking, Academic, Abacus

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• Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.

  Michael Hudson

  Army, People, Income

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

  Kofi Annan

  Jobs, Mean, Influence

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

  Anne Robinson

  Lunch, Take Me, Asks

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Car, People, Personality

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.7, Random House

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• My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

  Umberto Eco

  Father

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• Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes.

  George W. Bush

  America, People, Pay

  'FOX News Sunday' with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2008.

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• If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

  Renato Canova

  Athlete, Want, Littles

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• I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

  Ann Richards

  People, Income, Pay

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• I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Math, Parent, Compromise

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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

  Jack Welch

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run, rich dad suggested I write down all the mistakes I made and then seek help. If I made accounting mistakes, I talked to an accountant. If there was a legal mistake, I talked to an attorney. That was my way out. That is how I got smarter.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Suicide

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• 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

  Sex, Taken, College

  Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

  Nick Carter

  Math, Successful, Keys

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• Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Organization, Upset

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

  Harold Innis

  Cutting, Technology, Needs

  Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.323, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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