"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring."

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You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

— Charlie Munger