Accountants Quotes - Page 4

• George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

  John Osborne

  Writing, Order, Years

  John Osborne (2014). “Damn You England: Collected Prose”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

  Jim Stanford

  Circles, Trying, Way

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.

  Phil Jackson

  New York, California, Too Much

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I only made x amount of albums in 20 years and to still be living comfortably. A lot of people and friends look at me and be like yo Ra how do you do it? You don't go on tour every year and you don't make an album every year, you chill with your family and watch TV. Everyone else is out on tour getting that money. But I managed to do my thing right with the help of my accountant and I'm still comfortable.

  Rakim

  Years, People, Tvs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

  Simon Sinek

  Years, Answers, Clue

  "Measure Success: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

  Richard Armitage

  Independent, Self, Long

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• As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

  Marta Andreasen

  Blue, World, Chips

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• Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.

  Philip Roth

  Powerful, Circles, Careers

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• I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine. He said, "What these other accounting firms have done is very unethical. The [tax avoidance scheme] works best if it's not found out [by the IRS], so we only give it to our best clients, not the rest, so it's unlikely to be discovered. So my firm is better than the others." [Laughter] I'm not kidding. And he was a perfectly nice man. People just follow the crowd...Their mind just drifts off in a ghastly way.

  Charlie Munger

  Laughter, Nice, Men

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• Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Running, Book, Mean

  "A simple, mildly incredulous philippic". nielsenhayden.com. April 7, 2010.

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• Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

  Joe Meno

  Love, Children, Loss

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

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• My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

  Grace Slick

  Encouraging, Parent, Would Be

  "Summer of Love: 40 Years Later / Grace Slick" by, www.sfgate.com. May 20, 2007.

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• If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans.

  Julianna Baggott

  Athlete, College, Men

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Children, Father, Influence

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

  Henry R. Luce

  Writing, Editing, Balance

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• My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

  Douglas Preston

  Morning, Sunday, Guy

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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• The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

  Alex James

  Business, Interesting, Lawyer

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• You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

  David Foster Wallace

  Business, Real, Cowboy

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• I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Too Much, Lawyer

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• I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Giving, Different

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• The guys at Smartax are the most renowned Accountants in the world!

  Donald Trump

  Guy, World, Renowned

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• Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development. And so on. But, since we're effectively talking about "where we live," good sense and good business and "good" engagement throughout the "supply chain," from vendor's vendor to customer's customer, we would benefit mightily-including on the P & L-if we insisted (!) on: "Pleasant." "Caring." "Engaged."

  Tom Peters

  Stars, Caring, Talking

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• If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Doors, Requirements, Waste

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• I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Father, Rebel, Republican

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