Luca Pacioli Quotes

“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”

Luca Pacioli

“Books should be closed each year, especially in partnership because frequent accounting makes for long friendship.”

Luca Pacioli book Summa de arithmetica

Summa de arithmetica, geometria. Proportioni et proportionalita (Venice 1494)

“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.”

Luca Pacioli

From the book De divina proportione

“The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.”

Luca Pacioli

As quoted in The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio, p. 124