Bookkeepers Quotes:

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Wife, Faithful, Attention, Faithful Wife, Bookkeepers

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

- Martin Lewis Perl

topic: Mother, Father, School, Merchants, Bookkeepers

I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.

- Joey Comeau

source: Joey Comeau (2009). “Overqualified”, E C W Press

topic: Book, Writing, Years, Bookkeepers

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

- Pam Muñoz Ryan

topic: Jewels, Library, Treasure, Bookkeepers, Young And Old

Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

- Thomas Berry

topic: Wall, Integrity, Faithful, Scribes, Calculators

Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life? We are poor bookkeepers, indeed!

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Life, Faith, Grateful, Greatest Gifts, Bookkeepers

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

- Bela Lugosi

topic: Mad, Actors, Plumber, Bookkeepers

Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

- Tony Evans

topic: Views, Etc, Hats, Bookkeepers

Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

- Vivian Gornick

topic: Doctors, Nurse, Tasks, Bookkeepers

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

- Edward Dahlberg

source: Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.61, U of Minnesota Press

topic: Poetry, Earning, Poet, Bookkeepers

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .

- William Safire

topic: Nice, Giving, Flying, Cfo, Cio

At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.

- Norman Granz

topic: Important, Want, Should, Bookkeepers

When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square ... I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.

- Willem de Kooning

topic: Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking, Bookkeepers

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

- Walt Disney

topic: Design, Development, Way, Bookkeepers

If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.

- Jesse Lauriston Livermore

topic: Fun, Men, Race, Subtraction, Bookkeepers

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

- Harry Frankfurt

topic: Mother, Father, Years, Bookkeepers

This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Brother, Taken, Blessing, Debutantes, Toenails

Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Law Firms, Bookkeepers

Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Teacher, Self Esteem, Responsibility, Designation, Plan Of Salvation

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

- Stewart Udall

topic: Life, Business, Long, Long Haul, Accountants

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

- Michael Bloomberg

source: Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.

topic: Father, Writing, Years, Naacp, Bookkeepers

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

- Henry R. Luce

topic: Discovery, Poet, Easier, Bookkeepers

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

- E. O. Wilson

source: E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.90, Vintage

topic: Thinking, Poet, Scientist, Bookkeepers

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

- Harry Browne

topic: Errors, Government, People, Intrusion, Bookkeepers

Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.

- Dan Millman

topic: Mom, Dream, Song, Downtown Los Angeles, Catering