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  • "One can’t say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know."
    Fred Schwed (1901–1966), US author
    Source: Where Are the Customers' Yachts? (1940)
  • "Accountants are the witch-doctors of the modern world and willing to turn their hands to any kind of magic."
    Sir Charles Eustace Harman (1894–1970), British judge
    Source: Speech (February 1964)
  • "It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading."
    Mary, Lady Archer of Weston-Super-Mare (1944–), British chemist
    Source: Attributed
  • "The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the admiration of the learned world."
    Edwin T. Freedley (1827–1904), US manufacturer
    Source: A Practical Treatise on Business (1853)
  • "The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant."
    Jonathan Glancey, British journalist
    Source: Attributed
  • "What's the difference between Enron and Fannie Mae? The guys at Enron have been convicted."
    Anonymous
    Comparing accounting practices at Fannie Mae with those of the collapsed energy giant Enron.
    Source: Wall Street Journal (June 14, 2006)
  • "They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism."
    Sean O’Grady, British economics journalist
    Source: Independent (London) (July 3, 2009)

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