“If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract – teach him to deduct.”  Fran Lebowitz

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”  Dwight D. Eisenhower

“40% of small business owners say bookkeeping and taxes are the single worst part of owning a business.”  Source: 2014 survey from SCORE, a small business mentoring organization

“If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.” Will Rogers

“If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.” Merry Browne

“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” Scott Adams

“There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.” David Letterman

“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” Roy L. Smith

“You have to know accounting. It’s the language of practical business life.” Charlie Munger (Warren Buffet’s sidekick)

“My strong belief – backed by more than three decades of business experience and close-hand observations of several hundred business clients – is that you can’t successfully manage your business without a decent accounting system.  Success requires accurately measuring profits…