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

Happiness is. Starting your study with 3 principles of accounting, then your profession, with 3 principles of life. CHALLENGE it, ACHIEVE it, Loop it. Happy to be a CA, Happy CA day.

— Vikrmn

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full-time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

— Patricia C. Wrede

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

— Warren Buffett

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

— Ryan Lilly

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive audits, but that is because accounting is something that has become taken for granted.

— Eric Ries

There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.

— Jenny Offill

[To admit that college isn't for everyone] may sound elitist. It may even sound Philistine, since the purpose of a liberal-arts education is to produce well-rounded citizens rather than productive workers. But perhaps it is more foolishly elitist to think that going to school until age 22 is necessary to being well-rounded, or to tell millions of young adults that their futures depend on performing a task that only a minority of them can actually accomplish. It is absurd that people have to get college degrees to be considered for good jobs in hotel management or accounting — or journalism. It is inefficient, both because it wastes a lot of money and because it locks people who would have done good work out of some jobs. The tight connection between college degrees and economic success may be a nearly unquestioned part of our social order. Future generations may look back and shudder at the cruelty of it.

— Ramesh Ponnuru

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of bookkeeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe