William Faulkner Quotes

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.

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.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

I'm bad with numbers. My husband is the keeper of the records.

My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

It contains almost 190,000 accounts. At the rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these.

I did not come into government to win an award as the great accountant in the sky and balance budgets.

Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts.

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

I took business and economics courses. More than anything, I learned the proper steps and the things that need to be outlined. You have to keep your books: how much money you made, how much money you're spending, what you profited, and what you're gonna need for expenses.

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

Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise.