quotes about Bookkeeping

last updated: November 28, 2023

Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of " capital ." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.
-- Werner Sombart

Source : "Der moderne Kapitalismus". Book by Werner Sombart, 2006.

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“I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.”
“My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.”
“My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.”
“There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...”

Source : Simon R. Green (2004). “Nightingale's Lament”, p.58, Penguin
“... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”
“Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.”
“Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree.”

Source : "Fictional character: Milly". "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", www.imdb.com. July 15, 1954.
“The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.”
“Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”
“You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.”