#counting

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

— Warren Buffett

#business #economic #principals #business

Insomnia I cannot get to sleep tonight. I toss and turn and flop. I try to count some fluffy sheep while o'er a fence they hop. I try to think of pleasant dreams of places really cool. I don't know why I cannot sleep - I slept just fine at school. ↗

— Kathy Kenney-Marshall

#humour #insomnia #school #sleep #dreams

I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down. - Sleeping to Dream ↗

— Jason Mraz

#dreams #dreams

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#counted #counting #country #court #floridians

One often calms one's grief by recounting it. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#calms #grief #often #recounting

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#our #recounting #soothe #them #woes

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#always #brothers #cards #counting #ever

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#come #counting #expect #generally #home

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#back #banjo #beatles #been #better

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#fifty #forth #good #hundred #least