Bottom Line Quotes

• Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Lines, Strategy

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• Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

  William Arthur Ward

  Graduation, Wise, Encouragement

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• 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

  Business, Understanding, Lines

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

  James Woods

  Destiny, Lines, Bottom

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• You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Integrity, Literature

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• The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

  Sugata Mitra

  Lines, Wells, Bottom

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• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Horizon

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Change, Money

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 26, 2013

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• 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

  Positive, Impact, Important

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• The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

  Jared Bernstein

  Running, Insecurity, Lines

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• 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

  Momentum, Lines, I've Learned

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• 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

  Believe, Trying, Lines

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• Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

  Rohit Shetty

  Growth, Earning, Lines

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• There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.

  Walter Wright

  Running, Believe, Character

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• You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

  Frank Gehry

  Believe, Optimistic, Doubt

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, People, Body

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Attitude, Lines, Helping

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• I look for characters that are fun and that I'm going to have fun playing. By the way, that's whether it's drama, sci-fi, action, comedy, family movies or action-comedy. I just always want to have fun doing it. That's the bottom line.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Fun, Drama, Character

  "Dwayne Johnson On Set Interview FASTER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 1, 2010.

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• You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.

  Pat Summitt

  Lines, Shots, Bottom

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• Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Way, Temples

  "Hungry for another title, Ravens' Lewis watches diet". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Achievement, Focus, East

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• The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Tree, African American, Lines

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• The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Real, Editors, Lines

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• The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Team

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• The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Musician, Lines, Bottom

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