{"quotes":[{"text":"Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?","author":"J. C. Watts","tags":["accounting","numbers","facts "],"id":63291,"author_id":"J.+C.+Watts"},{"text":"I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.","author":"Bernard Ebbers","tags":["technology","day","accounting "],"id":103344,"author_id":"Bernard+Ebbers"},{"text":"This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.","author":"Jim Costa","tags":["light","america","accounting "],"id":167958,"author_id":"Jim+Costa"},{"text":"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.","author":"John F. Kennedy","tags":["future","past","accounting "],"id":177974,"author_id":"John+F.+Kennedy"},{"text":"I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.","author":"Patricia C. Wrede","tags":["accounting","business","dragons","writing"],"id":182050,"author_id":"Patricia+C.+Wrede"},{"text":"Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.","author":"Tilman J. Fertitta","tags":["accounting","financial","know "],"id":187180,"author_id":"Tilman+J.+Fertitta"},{"text":"Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["accounting","business","double-entry"],"id":191872,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.","author":"David Letterman","tags":["accounting","like","show "],"id":206570,"author_id":"David+Letterman"},{"text":"There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.","author":"Gerhard Herzberg","tags":["good","accounting","nothing "],"id":230559,"author_id":"Gerhard+Herzberg"},{"text":"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["accountant","accountants","accounting","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","at-odds","axiom","axioms","bad-people","bad-person","bankrupt","bankruptcy","business","business-man","business-men","business-people","business-person","business-woman","business-women","businesses","choice","choose","chose","clash","companies","company","conflict","contradict","contradiction","deep","desire","desires","dictum","dictums","dilemma","epigram","epigrams","force","forced","friction","funny","gnome","gnomes","good-people","good-person","humor","humorous","humour","income","incomes","incompatibility","incompatible","insightful","loss","losses","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maximize","maxims","maximum","minimize","minimum","mismatch","money","philosopher","profit","profit-and-loss","profits","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","revenue","revenues","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","seller","sellers","selling","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":235706,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}