Finance and Accounting Quotes
Top 20 Finance and Accounting Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-drucker.jpg)
Profit is not a cause. It is the result – the result of performance of the business in marketing, innovation and
productivity.
- Peter Drucker, pictured right, The Practice of Management (1954)
No 2![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-ford.jpg)
It is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford (1863–1947), American car manufacturer,
pictured right.
No 3![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-hume.jpg)
Money…is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and
easy.
- David Hume (1711–76), Scottish
philosopher, pictured right.
No 4![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-einstein.jpg)
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
- from a sign hanging in the office of the German-born American scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), pictured right.
No 5![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-parkinson.jpg)
Expenditure rises to meet income.
- C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93),English writer, pictured right.
No 6![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-ruskin.jpg)
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
- John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer and
philosopher, pictured right.
No 7![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-weil.jpg)
Accounting...never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures that look well on paper.
- Simone Weil (1909-43), French philosopher, pictured right.
No 8![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend
(Polonius in Hamlet)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No 9
Would any of you think of building a tower without first sitting down and calculating the cost, to see whether
he could afford to finish it?,
(Luke 14:28 in the Bible)
- Jesus (speaking to his disciples),
founder of Christianity.
No 10![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotesstein.jpg)
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.
(tenant farmers in the 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath)
- John Steinbeck (1920-68), American writer, pictured right
No 11![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-sloan.jpg)
It is as I see it the
strategic aim of a business to earn a return on capital.
- Alfred Sloan (1875-1966), American boss of General Motors 1923-46,
pictured right,.
No 12![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-fd.jpg)
There must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), American
president, pictured right.
No 13![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-jackson-andrew.jpg)
If the people understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before
morning,
- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) American
president, pictured right.
No 14
Management accounting systems can and should be designed to support the operations and the strategy of the
organization.
- Robert Kaplan, pictured right, and
Thomas Johnson, pictured right below, in Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting (1987)
No 15![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-conran.jpg)
Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analyzing facts about the past, but they
have no forward vision.
- Terence Conran (1931-), English
designer, pictured right.
Lord Justice Harman (1894-1970), the English judge (pictured right), also comments
Accountants are the witch-doctors of the modern world and willing to turn their hands to any kind of magic.
No 16![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotesschind.jpg)
My father was fond of saying you need three things in life: a good doctor, a forgiving priest and a clever
accountant.
- Oskar Schindler (in the 1993 film, Schindler's List, pictured right)
No 17![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-adams-scott.jpg)
The budget process was invented by an alien race of sadistic beings who resemble large cats.
- Scott Adams, pictured right, The Dilbert Principle (1996) .
No 18![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-drucker.jpg)
Controls follow strategy.
- Peter Drucker, pictured right, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities,
Practices (1973).
![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-hamel.jpg)
No 19
A company must not only get to the future first, it must get there for less.
- Gary Hamel, pictured right above, and
CK Prahalad, pictured right below, Competing for the Future (1996)
No 20![Finance and Accounting Quotes Finance and Accounting Quotes](images/quotes-levitt.jpg)
A company’s most precious asset is its relationships with its customers.
- Theodore (Ted) Levitt, pictured right, The Marketing Imagination (1983)
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