Certified Public Accountant Quotes

• 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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• 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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• The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

  W. C. Fields

  Giving, Income, Tails

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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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• 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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