Accounts Quotes

• The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Answers
  • Experts
  • Clients

• The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

  

  Kevin Warsh
  • Giving
  • Financial
  • Failing

• The reason we need books like these is that the Gospels cannot simply be taken at face value as giving us historically reliable accounts of the things Jesus said and did.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Books
  • Gospels

• Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Men
  • Chaos
  • Levels

• Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Game
  • Speculation
  • Wall Street

• We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.

  

  David Castle
  • Sometimes
  • Couple
  • Circumstances

• Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

  

  Anil Dash
  • Should
  • Social
  • Privacy

• I've always been fascinated by accounts of seemingly 'normal' people who have committed horrendous acts of cruelty and violence. You hear it on the news all the time.

  

  Richard Montanari
  • Fascinated
  • Horrendous
  • Seemingly

• I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.

  

  William A. Rusher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Manage

• In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Important
  • Science
  • Change

• The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh.

  

  William C. Davis
  • Writing
  • Insight
  • Alternatives

• Short accounts make long friends.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Friends
  • Accounts

• I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.

  

  Geoff Capes
  • Feels
  • Broken
  • Computer

• ShapeShift has no user accounts, signup, or registration process whatsoever. But it's faster and far more convenient than traditional exchanges.

  

  Erik Voorhees
  • Process
  • Traditional
  • Convenient

• One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Values
  • Common
  • Share

• Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Ideas
  • Study
  • Years

• I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Situation
  • Storyteller
  • Embarrassing

• The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

  

  William Cecil Dampier
  • Understood
  • Framed
  • Abstraction

• Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

  

  Sean Duffy
  • People
  • Security
  • Social

• The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Risk
  • Rich
  • Entrepreneur

• We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Choices
  • Created
  • Designed

• People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

  

  Michael Birch
  • People
  • Daughter
  • Accounts

• The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Treasure
  • Parliament
  • Expense

• You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Government
  • Communication
  • Organized

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