Tilman J. Fertitta Quote

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is...

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing...

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business!...