Accountants Quotes - Page 7

• My company is now in it's third year of trading with CBS accountants. I have found them 100% professional and their expertise in complex tax matters is worth its weight in gold. As a result, I have recommended them to many colleagues who are also very happy with the service provided.

  Christopher Wray

  Years, Gold, Weight

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• 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

  Couple, Nice, Blame

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Jobs, Business, Writing

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• Someone remind me why I didn’t want to be an accountant when I grew up,” Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. “Because accountants don’t get to make things go boom.

  Tina St. John

  Want, Grew Up, Grew

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• From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

  Jimmy Reid

  Book, People, Atmosphere

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

  Walter Wriston

  Law, Judging, Liberty

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• Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Unhappiness, Beggar

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• If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.

  Lois Wyse

  Believe, Cities, Keys

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• 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

  Writing, People, Diaries

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.

  Thomas Friedman

  Doctors, Matter, Stuff

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Pain, Powerful, Bills

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• 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

  Home, Mean, Independent

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• I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.

  Steve Odland

  Mean, Black And White, Thinking

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• My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Children

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

  Wilbur Smith

  Ideas, People, Creative

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• We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.

  Werner Herzog

  Numbers, Robots

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it?

  Clint Eastwood

  Running, Home, Trying

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• 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

  Princess, Rose, Forget

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• 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

  Daughter, Book, Long Ago

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• You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

  Walt Disney

  Design, Development, Way

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• You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

  Marco Rubio

  Hurt, Government, Guy

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• 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

  Speed, Amusing, Delivery

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

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• A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.

  Conan O'Brien

  Art, Sorry, Kids

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• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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