Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Benjamin Franklin
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Account Think Accounting Advice Aims Answering Future Goals God Judgement Day Motivation Remembering Roots

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A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
Forest E. Witcraft
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Life

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Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies

Charles D'Hericault
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Lord

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name
Woody Allen

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Belief Faith

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Proof

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
Dorothy Parker

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There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto

Phyllis Diller

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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste
Will Rogers
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"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul." ~ Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you
Stephen Vizinczey
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

ACCOUNTANTS' utterances can be potentially profound, almost memorable and even marginally motivational! Here are some of the more enlightened to give you a lift through the working day.

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Nearly Famous and Profound Accounting Quotes

Quote: "Accounting is my life. Stop by and I'll tell you why." - Dave, Accounting Department, 3rd Floor. Quote: "Only accountants can save the world! - through peace, goodwill and reconciliations." - the alternative accountant Quote: "I'm An Accounting Celebrity!...Leave Me In Here...It's Month End!." an Accounting Celebrity Quote: "Month end is approaching - Keep calm and carry on accounting"Traditional. Quote: "A good accountant never makes mistrakes." Quote: "And who said accountants don't have a sense of humor?! - late nights, weekend working, endless reconciliations, no lunch break, month end, year end, dealing with auditors, taking the blame, exams, CPD......" - name and address supplied Quote: "Year end is approaching - Keep calm and carry on accounting."Traditional. Quote: "The great thing about working in the Accounting Department is that everybody counts." Quote: "Year end is approaching - Keep calm and carry on reconciling."Traditional. Quote: "I am pleased to say that our results are very much in line with plan. All we have to do now is find out what the plan was." CFO - name and address supplied Quote: "There are 3 types of accountant - those that can count and those that can't." Ex-employee - The alternative accountant
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Quote: "In our opinion there are just 3 types of auditor - those whose opinion you can rely on, and those whose opinion you can't." Ex-auditors. Quote: "10 out of 9 accountants can't count!" The same ex-employee. Quote: ""The budget is running out - Keep calm and carry on auditing" - Our auditors Quote: "There are 2 rules for being a successful accountant. 1. Don't tell them everything you know."

Quote: "There is only one rule for passing accounting exams. Don't make any silly mistrakes!" Ex-student. Quote: "I'm Cooking the Books!" - name and address supplied Quote: "I've Been Cooking the Books!" - Ex-client - name and address supplied

Republicans and Democrats have

used accountinggimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look
at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
John Bolton quotes Accounting quotes

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If you want an accounting of your worth, count your
friends.
Merry Browne quotes Self Acceptance quotes

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Political elections are a good deal like marriages,
there's no accounting for anyone's taste
Will Rogers quotes Politics quotes

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There is no accounting for taste and no taste
foraccounting.

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I've met them down in the Cost
and accountingDepartment, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.
Jean Shepherd quotes Accounting quotes

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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to
produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Thomas Sowell quotes Accounting quotes

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It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's
taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return oraccounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
John Buchanan Robinson quotes Accounting quotes

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While expanding market access for American industry,
financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
Mark Udall quotes Accounting quotes

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Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of
white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other

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nefarious activities. 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 quotes Accounting quotes

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Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over
the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
Randy Neugebauer quotes Accounting quotes

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There's no business like show business, but there are
several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman quotes Accounting quotes

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There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no
reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
Kenneth Lay quotes Accounting quotes

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Home base is the support system where we have a
culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
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I don't really care about money. I find money boring
andaccounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever

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make a lot of money.

Juliana Hatfield quotes Accounting quotes

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This Department of Treasury, run by this administration,
using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.
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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor
indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F Kennedy quotes Accounting quotes

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I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces
have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
Brian Ferneyhough quotes Accounting quotes

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If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. 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 quotes Accounting quotes

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I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like
me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like

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someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Anna Chlumsky quotes Accounting quotes

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I don't know technology and engineering. I don't
knowaccounting.
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I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know
technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
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What people don't realize is that intimacy has its
conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
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Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising
children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in globalaccounting, in either developing.