Bernard Ebbers Quotes

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

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

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

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 didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

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

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 want to work in a bank, definitely. Hopefully, my acting career will go well. But if it doesn't, I go to a bank. If it does, then even at the age of 40, I will still go to a bank, but I have to work in a bank, because I'm really fond of taxation and accounts and investments and all of that. So I will do it. At some point, I will, yes.

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.

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

I have some classes in accounting, but I don't know anything about accounting. I - you know, when my accountant tells me all the things he does, it's a foreign language to me.

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.

I studied finance and was a topper.

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

I didn't have any work to do, and I had files of my personal and Guns N' Roses financial statements for the previous eight years. I wanted to learn how to read these, but I didn't trust anybody. I just got a lightbulb in my head and said, 'I want to go to school.' That began my journey, taking accountancy and business classes at Seattle.

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

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

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.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

I see myself in business. I'm good with numbers. It's just something that interests me.

I really love being finance director.

I'm very weird with my money.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.