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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
— Nancy Gibbs
I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves ... my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).
— Annie Dillard
Innovation accounting
— Eric Ries
In a society of free men the preservation of life and health are ends, not means. They do not enter into any process of accounting means.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.
— Charlie Munger
There is no accounting for tastes.
— Ann Radcliffe
The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.
— Julian Robertson
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
— Alex Berenson
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.
— Arthur Laffer
Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.
— Andrew Fastow
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
— Bernard Ebbers
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
— Peter Drucker
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.
— Geraldine Brooks
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
— Claude Bissell
When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Creativity is great-but not in accounting.
— Charles Scott
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
— Thomas Sowell
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
— Rita Mae Brown
There's no accounting for the opinions of old ladies. They think everyone is cute.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky
As the economist Herman Daly once put it: The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.
— Bill Bryson
There's no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
— Erich Fromm
It seemed odd no one had thought of it before but in general there is no accounting for the bovine stupidity of mankind.
— Zachary Mason
Cardiovascular disease remains the #1 killer of people in the United States today - accounting for more deaths than all forms of cancer combined.
— Steven Masley
I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.
— Kathleen Norris
I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.
— Charlie Munger
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
— Friedrich St. Florian
There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples.
— Alyssa Day
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
— Warren Buffett
And he read Principles of Accounting all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.
— Terry Pratchett
Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
— Peter Heller
What is meat for one is not for another
no accounting for fancy. — Abigail Adams
no accounting for fancy. — Abigail Adams
To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.
— Warren Buffett
On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.
— Patricia Heaton
Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.
— Tom Golisano
History, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.
— Helen Foster Snow
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
— Ambrose Bierce
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.
— Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?
— Ryan Lilly
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
— Cormac McCarthy
Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.
— Stacy Schiff
How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?
— David Schweikert
Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.
— Kenneth Lay
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
— Charlie Munger
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
— Susan George
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
— Ben Bernanke
I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.
— Juliana Hatfield
If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.
— Jaume Collet-Serra
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
— Alex Gibney
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
— Bernard Ebbers
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
— Kenneth Lay
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
— Warren Buffett
I have to say accounting almost killed me.
— Venus Williams
Scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.
— James Carroll
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.
— Andrea Dworkin
There is no accounting for human beings.
— Mark Twain
There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
— Franklin P. Adams
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
— William Wilberforce
There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.
— Craig Shaw Gardner
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
— Diane Garnick
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
— Toni Morrison
Preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
— Alan Watts
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
— Leonard Adleman
Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
— Will Rogers
Science is much easier than Accounting.
— K.C Tshwaane
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.
— Leonard Michaels
Accounting is the language of business.
— Warren Buffett
A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.
— Burton G. Malkiel