#counting

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

#democracy #disadvantage #experiment #government #instead

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#both #charge #counting #electric #great

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#counting #easy #folks #form #me

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. ↗

— Susan George

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know

And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#back #dollar #every #goods #invested

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz. ↗

— Tom Peters

#become #boundaries #brand #brands #buzz

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#accounting #collars #cost #damn #damn thing

It was the oddest feeling. I thought Laci Peterson needed me; I thought she was counting on me to bring her and her baby home. ↗

— Amber Frey

#bring #counting #feeling #her #home

I have nothing to do with counting the votes. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#i #nothing #votes

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#issues #previously #problem #reserve #trading