QuickBooks and Bookkeeping » Quotes For You http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog Articles written by A Professional QuickBooks ProAdvisor Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:56:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 An Elegant Solution http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=548 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=548#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:41:14 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=548 “An old puzzle asks how a barometer can be used to measure the height of a building. Answers range from dropping the instrument from the top and measuring the time of its fall to giving it to the building’s superintendent in return for a look at the plans. A modern version of the puzzle asks how a personal computer can balance a checkbook. An elegant solution is to sell the machine and deposit the money.”

Jon Bentley, More Programming Pearls

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When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy (1917–63), U.S. president. Speech, 12 April 1959, Indianapolis, Ind.

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=183 0 Our Chaotic Economic Situation http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=181 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=181#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:00:42 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/08/27/our-chaotic-economic-situation/ Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain and restless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn’t matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.

– Hortense Odlum Attribution: Hortense Odlum (1892–?), U.S. businesswoman. A Woman’s Place, ch. 14 (1939).

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=181 0 Banks http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=178 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=178#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:00:59 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/08/13/banks/ A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Bob Hope
US (English-born) actor & comedian (1903 – 2003)

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=178 0 On Money http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=176 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=176#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:18:28 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/07/23/on-money/ On money: Save it when you need it least. Spend it when you need it most.

Attributed to Franco Modigliani (1918 – 2003)

Italian-born U.S. economist

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=176 0 What Counts http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=173 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=173#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:00:18 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/07/16/what-counts/ Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=173 0 Bean Counting http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=171 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=171#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:00:46 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/07/02/bean-counting/ The secret isn’t counting the beans, it’s growing more beans.

Roberto Goizueta (1931 – 1997)

U.S. business executive

Fortune, November 13, 1995.

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=171 0 A Definition of Success http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=168 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=168#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:43:53 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/06/18/a-definition-of-success/ Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller
US banker (1915 – )

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=168 0 The Secret of Success - http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=164 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=164#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:00:14 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/06/11/the-secret-of-success/ “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.”

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

]]> http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=164 0 Money http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=160 http://bookkeepingrus.com/blog/?p=160#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:25:06 +0000 admin http://bookkeepingrus.com/2007/06/04/money-2/ “If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

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