Quotes about Ledger

Fulton J. Sheen

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Larry Wilmore

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

Michael Ian Black

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

Victoriano Huerta

I am not a bookkeeper!

He was notoriously corrupt, and was insulted that the naïve Madero would so insult and embarrass him by asking for an accounting. He then led a coup against Madero and had him shot, taking over Mexico himself until he was chased to America in exile.

Alan Greenspan

There is double entry bookkeeping in this world, and we have to hear how programs are to be paid for.

He was commenting on President Donald Trump's first Message to Congress, whwerw he talked about the new porgrams he favored initiating and even gave price tags on a number of them. However, he did not specify how he proposed to pay for any of them. Greenspan's elegant criticism was made in economic and accounting terms and not in the usual crass political terminology but the message was clear.

Gavin Andresen

I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

Richard Avedon

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

Cormac McCarthy

Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

Malcolm Forbes

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

Ledger Quotes