#account

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. ↗

— Simone Weil

#courage #honesty #inspiration #status-quo #truth

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. ↗

— Shana McDonald

#national-security #patriotism #whistleblowers #courage

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. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#business #dragons #writing #business

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

— Warren Buffett

#business #economic #principals #business

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#choices #courage #destiny #faith #god

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#cash #cash register #deed #every #life

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. ↗

— Socrates

#any #evil #him #however #injured

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#again #attention #haven #high #high school

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#also #believe #closest #decide #evaluate