#counting

It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of. ↗

— David Almond

#david-almond #change

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#activities #banking #cards #collar #crime

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. ↗

— Scott Adams

#counting #creator #likes #mysterious #numbers

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#entire #entire life #going #i #life

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#crack #like

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#forces #go #how #i #implications

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. ↗

— Merry Browne

#count #friends #want #worth #you

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. ↗

— Bill Murray

#counting #dance #does #doing #ended

Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#domestic #economic #expansion #few #gross