Balance Sheets

Famous quotes containing the words balance sheets, balance and/or sheets:

“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.”
—English proverb, collected in John Ray, English Proverbs (1670)