Sentence examples for a bean counter from inspiring English sources

"He's a bean counter," the supervisor said.

A bean counter at some insurance company?

"O'Keefe is a bean counter; he knows exactly how many beans you've got," Representative Rohrabacher said.

A bean counter would probably advise BMW to move the factory elsewhere and sell the real estate.

If you don't have a risk-tolerant constitution, you should not be running a — if you've got a bean counter running your network, it's a bad situation.

The CEO we hired was a bean counter who made the numbers reinforce his story, and the board bought into it, but it was a false story.

His successor, Anthony Williams, was a bean-counter almost comically devoid of charisma.

The investors bankrolling Big Organic have no reason to fear the vestigial hippie rhetoric: it's not so much a counterculture as a bean-counter culture.

Plainly, if you apply a bean-counter mentality to your car purchases, this top-of-the-line zoomer from Ford Motor's elite British subsidiary isn't for you.

He hasn't the least regret: "We're part of the food industry now". The investors bankrolling Big Organic have no reason to fear the vestigial hippie rhetoric: it's not so much a counterculture as a bean-counter culture.

I pissed them off quite a bit by donning a bean-counter's suit – which I found, in that case, enjoyable – and by suggesting many budget cuts.