By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.

— Tom Golisano

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

— Tilman J. Fertitta

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

— Bernard Ebbers

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

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

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks 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?

— J. C. Watts

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

— Gerhard Herzberg

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

— David Letterman

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.

— Jim Costa

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