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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.