Sunday, March 28, 2010

Counting Money

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted - Albert Einstein

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession - Charles J. C. Lyall

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday - Dr Samuel Johnson

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars - Jean Paul Getty

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately - Oscar Wilde