If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.
[Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D. C.
Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook. '
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems.
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!
Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical.
Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.