Accountant Quotes
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I've been to a lawyer, and a business advisor and a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), and I have a business plan ready. (Quote by - Carol Anderson)
If you're working on the line at Ford or you're an accountant doing taxes day after day, there seems to be no tangible results of your efforts. In a war, there are deaths, but there is personal gratification. (Quote by - Dennis Orthner)
I don't think Alan did anything wrong. He relied on his accountant. (Quote by - David English)
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. (Quote by - Sir Charles Lyell)
Causey has no defense. He's an accountant, and he was right there at ground zero. (Quote by - John Coffee)
If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple. (Quote by - Lundborg, Louis B.)
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant. (Quote by - Samuel West)
If you didn't want to become a great golfer, or a piano player, or an attorney or an accountant, whatever (Tiger) wanted was fine with them. That they didn't get caught up in his super ability, that was amazing. They continued trying to raise a good person, and golf was just something that he was good at. (Quote by - Rudy Duran)
Isn't that what it is all about, accountability? Those who break our immigration laws should be held accountable. Those who hire illegal aliens should be held accountable. And those who turn the other way and claim there is no problem should be held accountable. (Quote by - Tom Price)
Growth is itself a spur. If you're a dentist, there are more teeth to fill. If you're an accountant, there are more taxes to examine. (Quote by - Joel Kotkin)
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. (Quote by - Phillip Roth)
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. (Quote by - Milton Berle)
I am accountable for all the actions at my laboratory. I am accountable for all of the policies and procedures of security systems, and I am accountable for the training of the individuals working in the lab. We can't excuse them if they ignore these policies, if they are negligent, we have to hold them accountable as well. (Quote by - John Browne)
Mike and I have become very good friends. He's a good guy, detail oriented, and you need that. He has an accountant background and is willing to put in whatever it takes to do something. Yeah, I'm going to miss him. (Quote by - George Morgan)
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant. (Quote by - George Ryan)
Getting your mind right means ... everyone in your business - every person who will be engaged in hunting your Elephant, every executive, manager, accountant, service representative, delivery person, mechanic, creative writer, and board member your Elephant might come in contact with. Bag the Elephant!(Quote by - Steve Kaplan)
What we see on many of these schemes is that word of mouth kind of helps spread them. People hear, 'Hey, I've got this accountant who saved me a lot of money last year.' They end up making decisions that can ruin them financially. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. (Quote by - Chris Kerns)
I found that I was not effective at holding myself accountable. When you're in business you know what needs to be done. You have your goals in front of you and 99 percent of the time you know how to do it. Accountability is usually the missing piece. It's so easy to get caught up in the minutia of your day and the mundane things that have to be done. Holding yourself accountable for the things that need to be done is a challenge. (Quote by - Jason Mickey)
Of course I'm doing something about my overdraft: I'm seeing my accountant. (Quote by - Fantoni, Barry)
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. (Quote by - Ernest Newman)
Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant -- even if they wanted to be one?(Quote by - Jackie Mason)
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. (Quote by - Glancey, Jonathan)
I realised then that he was hanging around taking care of his business. I called the accountant afterwards after Jay left and he said, 'Yeah, you owe Jay about $16,000.', ... So I have his wife $8,000 that day and another $8,000 the next. (Quote by - Reverend Run)
Andrew's lawyer contacted Andrew's accountant, it was clarified and a full payment was wired immediately,(Quote by - Andrew Cuomo)
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper. (Quote by - John Lennon)
This program is here to provide one cohesive unit that's accountable: accountable to the judges in that we have to show when things were filed, and accountable to the taxpayers in that the Commissioners Court has some oversight of our budget. (Quote by - Angela Moore)
Some of the burden (of tax preparation) is just making sure you don't lose any pieces of paper. If you need to get it replaced, it's a pain. It's all unnecessary. It's all in the state computer in our name. You ought to be able to log online, or have your accountant do it, and get access to all that data. (Quote by - Joseph Bankman)
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless. (Quote by - George Orwell)
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. (Quote by - Ray Romano)
On Jan. 23, you will finally be able to hold the Liberals accountable ? accountable for stealing your money, accountable for breaking your trust and accountable for failing to deliver on your priorities, (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
Computers are not accountable. People are. (Quote by - George Marek)
It's possible the congressman and his accountant missed that paragraph in the 17,000-page IRS code, and his accountant is looking into it,(Quote by - Brian Kennedy)
I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me. (Quote by - Matthew Broderick)
She was my accountant, so I just believed her. (Quote by - John Howard)
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. (Quote by - Mario Cuomo)
Path to Success: Determine where you are and the plan you have to change it. Then the wise succeed in accomplishing it by obtaining accountability from ones wiser then themselves. Conversely the path of a fool is to determine where you are and the plan to hide it from the ones wise enough to hold you accountable to change it. (Quote by - Brad Koury)
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. (Quote by - Steve Odland)
An accountant might recognize that his client would reap tax benefits if she liquidated her notes. Or an attorney may recommend that her cash-strapped client sell his settlement note in order to improve his quality of life. (Quote by - Joseph Sprauer)
Get a great accountant or [take a] community college course and learn software programs like Quicken to keep your books, ... You skip this aspect of the business, and you'll be very sorry. (Quote by - Laurie Rozakis)
I came across it through Gina. Brian was Tom's accountant and Brian was a member, so he spoke to Tom and Tom spoke to Gina then Gina spoke to me. (Quote by - Clare McDonald)
My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. (Quote by - Glenda Jackson)
Clearly, Kyle's ability to lead as a quarterback eventually will stem from his productivity. Like any leader, that's what he'll be held accountable to. What we have to make sure is we're holding him accountable for those things he can control and holding others accountable for what is going on around him. (Quote by - Brian Billick)
Things started to get evasive when our accountant asked her for such simple things as cash flow statements and financial details for our company tax return. (Quote by - Derryn Hinch)
They need to be more accountable to the Board of Curators, frankly. I think the athletic department needs to begin to be held accountable for its actions, and I think the Board of Curators needs to be responsible for that accountability. (Quote by - David Wasinger)
Usually a lawyer looks at the narrative portion of the registration. An accountant looks at the financial statements. As they're reviewing the documents, they make notes about areas where they have questions or concerns about the adequacy or quality of disclosure, holding it up to the rules we have in place. On the basis of those notes, the staff composes something called a comment letter, which is sent to the filer. (Quote by - John Heine)
This was a complex tax shelter case, in which Mr. Stewart relied on the advice of his accountant and other tax experts. He is pleased that this five-year ordeal is finally over. (Quote by - John Fitzgibbons)
If, when a businessman speaks of minority employment or air pollution or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple. (Quote by - Louis B. Lundborg)
I was an accountant and tax-preparer for over 20 years. I enjoy the creativity and making people smile. (Quote by - Sandy Prince)
Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says (Quote by - Bill Conti)
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)
I don't think they did their arithmetic correctly. I think they needed an accountant to go over the numbers. (Quote by - Mary Staples Webber)
Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity. (Quote by - Jim Lowell)
I've always been good with numbers and good at getting numbers to where people could understand them. I never thought I would make a good (certified public accountant) though. (Quote by - Warren Fields)
I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property. (Quote by - Godfrey Bradman)
When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought for a long time and said, 'Yes, death would help'. (Quote by - ^Robert Morley)
