New York State Quotes

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

I actually studied accounting in college. So I'm a CPA.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

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

I soon knew what CPA meant- Can’t Produce Anything

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

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

The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.

Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

I am not a bookkeeper!

In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.

My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.

I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent.

If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it's mind-boggling.

I really love being finance director.

Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

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 have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.