Top 207 Accountant Quotes & Sayings

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

There are three people you need in life: an accountant, a fishmonger, and a bail bondsman.

She was my accountant, so I just believed her.

I'm an accountant. I'm a manufacturer from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who stepped up to the plate, and now I'm a U.S. senator.

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

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.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

I was an accountant for six months, and for the last three, I didn't do much work.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it for six months, and my job was to distract the auditors with jokes.

My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

In the e-filing system, the accountant has the user identity and password of each company. This would potentially allow a rogue accountant to play serious mischief with the accounts of an entity.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

Yeah, I went to business school and I actually worked as an accountant for about eight months. It's not what I wanted, but it was definitely a move to appease the parents.

If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.

There is no short-cut to success. Whether you want to be an engineer, a charted accountant or a fashion model you must work hard.

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

The passing of my accountant, Mary Coleman, who was the first person I shouted out on 'In Memory of...' was particularly devastating for me. She was beyond my accountant. She was my mother away from home.

I think you could get a good accountant, but I think I am the best accountant for me. Can't nobody count my money like I can count it.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.

Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it's mind-boggling.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.

I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant.

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.