Top 82 Quotes About Bottom Lines
#1. The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.
Stanley Elkin
#2. We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
Jeff Bezos
#3. The businesses that thrive over the long haul are likely to be those that understand that cost cutting and revenue growing aren't mutually exclusive. Eternal vigilance to both the top and bottom lines is the new ticket to prosperity.
Howard Schultz
#4. I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
Rahul Dravid
#5. Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
Ryan Holmes
#6. We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
Tom Hodgkinson
#7. Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.
Alex Rodriguez
#8. The leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
Anita Roddick
#9. Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.
Betty White
#10. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.
Peter Ferrara
#11. Jesse has opened for me extensively on the road so I've seen him do hundreds of sets. He is always super funny, has tons of material and the crowds love him. Bottom line, Jesse Joyce is a great comedian.
Greg Giraldo
#12. Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy ... The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.
Ralph W. Moss
#13. The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.
Seth Shostak
#14. My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.
Russell Crowe
#15. My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
Anita Roddick
#16. Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
Steve Jobs
#17. The bottom line is a by-product of taking care of your main product - your customers.
Ron Kaufman
#18. The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on the aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.
Wayne Hale
#19. But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
Sarah Dessen
#20. Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.
Ingmar Bergman
#21. Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!
Stone Cold Steve Austin
#22. The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable!
T. Harv Eker
#24. Here's the bottom line, we're either going or not.
Joe Teti
#25. We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
Carol Vorderman
#26. The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.
Jack White
#27. I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.
Joe Budden
#28. The bottom line is I've never had anybody bark at me in a mall with malicious intent. Everybody who barks at the kid from Cleveland is to let him know, "I know who you are." It's always a positive thing.
Arsenio Hall
#29. I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.
Queen Latifah
#30. The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."
Spencer Pratt
#32. It wasn't permanent like the limestone cross that flagged the mountain peak in the horizon, so he made sure to write it down. After making the sign of the cross, a deep hunger pulled his weight to the bottom of La Loma.
Richard Yanez
#33. You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
Pat Summitt
#34. The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.
Brian Solis
#35. Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.
James Woods
#37. The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.
John C. Maxwell
#38. The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.
Eddie Izzard
#39. Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.
Anthony Weiner
#40. The bottom line is, as the season goes on, everybody becomes more comfortable. For a quarterback, it's more than just him. It's everybody else doing things. Offense is all about how things work as a unit. It's everybody being comfortable.
Kirk Ferentz
#41. The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.
Ben Shapiro
#42. We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's
Ben Cohen
#43. The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.
Marianne Williamson
#44. The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That's what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.
Marianne Williamson
#45. In business
every business
the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.
Donald Trump
#47. The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.
Jared Bernstein
#48. The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.
Tony Bennett
#49. Everything existing in the world "falls to the bottom." The "bottom" for any part of the Universe is its nearest "stability," and this stability is the point toward which all the lines of force from all directions converge.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#50. Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.
Randy Alcorn
#51. Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.
Jeffrey Skoll
#52. The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
Charles Schumer
#53. As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.
Robert Reich
#54. Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.
Richard Branson
#55. Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.
Denis Waitley
#56. Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.
Keith Ferrazzi
#57. Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.
P.C. Cast
#58. She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
Julio Cortazar
#59. The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.
Frank Zappa
#60. Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
Byron Katie
#61. So if it resonates with fans - and that's always the bottom line, fans have the final say - then I'm sure we'll see more of it. I'd be honored to do it. I saw the first one today, and I cracked up. I literally laughed out loud. I saw how the sausage was made, and I still laughed.
Phil Morris
#62. The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.
Colin Powell
#63. You write to be read. That is the bottom line.
Jane Yolen
#64. The bottom line for everyone is I'm not good enough. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
Louise Hay
#65. The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.
Dick Cheney
#66. The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.
Michael Angelakos
#67. Bottom line, wasn't life itself a special occasion?
Jan Karon
#68. You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.
Edwin Land
#69. In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#70. Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?
Beth Moore
#71. You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
Carl Bernstein
#72. The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.
Jase Robertson
#73. I plead with my Moonlight fans to give this show a chance if they let me give it a chance. I can't do Moonlight again - it's finished. The bottom line is that my true fans will follow me where I go.
Alex O'Loughlin
#74. With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
John Mellencamp
#75. The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.
Louis Sullivan
#76. A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
Quincy Jones
#77. I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#78. The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.
Sugata Mitra
#79. We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.
Marianne Williamson
#80. I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.
Doug Sherman
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