#account

Going home must be like going to render an account. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#going #going home #home #like #must

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#every #idle #must #silence #word

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#day #finance #i #know #technology

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#always #any #called #darkness #day

The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account. ↗

— Harold Ford

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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #fullest #i #i think #life

From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist! ↗

— Genie Francis

#buy #checking #clothes #got #had

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#decrees #may #must #order #paralyze

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#audit #canadians #country #higher #i

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play. ↗

— Mike Lee

#basis #business #capital #cause #economy