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

  Rohit Shetty

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

  Pat Summitt

  Lines, Shots, Bottom

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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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• 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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• The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

  Sarah Dessen

  Numbers, Long, Lines

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.229, Penguin

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• The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options

  Stephenie Meyer

  Foundation, Lines, Bottom

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• The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, People, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Love You, Thinking, Should Have

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• He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

  Sara Gruen

  Uncles, Mean, Mad

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• The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Fighting, Rights

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