Bean Counters Quotes:

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

- Colin Quinn

topic: Funny Things, Laughing, Likes, Bean Counters

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

- Pierce Brosnan

topic: Kids, People, Clue, Bean Counters

It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.

- Bob Lutz

source: Bob Lutz (2011). “Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business”, p.8, Penguin

topic: Running, Philosophy, Passion, Dispassionate, Final Words

Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians… Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

- Spencer Antle

topic: Strong, Dirty, Cities, Bean Counters

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

- Colin Powell

topic: Bags, Stuff, Serious, Bean Bags, Bean Counters

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

- E. B. White

topic: Writing, Littles, Comedy, Bean Counters

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

- Alan Kay

topic: Freedom, Science, Blood, Bean Counters

[But] they can't kill music. God knows, they've tried. But music always wins. As long as there's kids coming up that have a passion. All the bean counters in the world can't kill that. You know? You just can't. They can try, of course, to feed you the most puerile, benign horse manure, but some kid's going to come along and demand something more than that.

- John Hiatt

topic: Horse, Passion, Kids, Bean Counters