#account

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. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#business #dragons #writing #business

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#business #economic #principals #business

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#accounted #annoyed #dearest #free #i

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #government #politics #trust #food

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#choice #consequences #freedom #redemption #responsibility

It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say. Being asked to apologise for saying something unconscionable is not the same as being stripped of the legal right to say it. It’s really not very f-cking complicated. Cry “free speech” in such contexts, you are demanding the right to speak any bilge you wish without apology or fear of comeback. You are demanding not legal rights but an end to debate about and criticism of what you say. When did bigotry get so needy? ↗

— China Miéville

#bigotry #freedom-of-speech #whining #freedom

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#account #because #ever #grace #greatness

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#australian #confidence #government #i #levels

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#accountable #adult #adult life #after #better

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#branded #cheap #either #executive #expense