David Neeleman Quotes

I was just kind of doing the math.

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

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

The companies that do well are the companies that use math.

I was good with numbers.

It's probably the wrong way round, I know, but I just love maths and doing equations. When I was a kid, I was really good at it, so when I was seven, I asked my mum what job lets you do maths and pays you for it. She said accountancy, and that was it. I was dead set.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and 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.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

My talent is numbers.

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

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

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.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

Very few wars have been won by mere numbers alone. Quality, willpower, geographical advantages, natural and financial resources, the command of the sea, and above all a cause that rouses the spontaneous surgings of the human spirit…

Whenever you can, count.

The markets do numbers, not nuance.