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• 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

  Stupid, Design, Lines

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

  Ray Charles

  Money, Sleep, Clothes

  FaceBook post by Ray Charles from Dec 04, 2013

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• My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

  Tom Peters

  Sweet, Real, Important

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• The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Lines, Matter

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• The bottom line is that you will not lose fat effectively with exercise-driven weight-loss efforts unless your eating habits moderate insulin production.

  Mark Sisson

  Loss, Exercise, Effort

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• Ben and I built Ben & Jerry’s on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation If we were going to have a business we were going to have one that was consistent with our values We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Ideas

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• We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Two, Community, Lines

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• The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray.

  Tony Evans

  Life, Christian, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Dec 06, 2013

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• My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I'm not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn't really need a salesman, and what these songs are are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that's definitely a part of it.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Religious, Mean

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• You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

  Dave Haywood

  Writing, Thinking, Winning

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• To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

  Dave Haywood

  Lines, Music Is, Bottom

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• We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

  John Spratt

  Cutting, Add, Debt

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• Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.

  John Neff

  Fall, Rising Prices, Names

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• 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

  Insecurity, Needs, Lines

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.

  Tony Visconti

  Queens, Rocks, Groups

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Years, Oil, Track

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• The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

  Freeman Dyson

  Math, Bridges, Design

  "Freeman Dyson: Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer". The College Mathematics Journal Interview with Donald J. Albers, January 1994.

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• The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the projects that would lead to future growth in order to drop money to the bottom line. This is HP's dilemma today. Once a company's growth has stopped, the game as we have known it is over. It's a scary thing.

  Clayton Christensen

  Order, Games, Scary

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Iran, Nuclear

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment.

  Chip Conley

  Giving, Ironic, Benefits

  "The Best $73 I Ever Spent" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2009.

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• 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

  Lines, Joints, Bottom

  "A new leaf" by Open Thread, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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• 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

  Jobs, Sex, Lines

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• If we want an all-volunteer force, the bottom line is that we're going to have to take care of these people who were willing to do what the bulk of people weren't willing to do. Going to war is dangerous - you can get killed doing it. And the question is, Are the American people willing to recognize the sacrifices of these young people?

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  War, Sacrifice, People

  "Are Military Pensions Too 'Generous'?". www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.

  Doug Sherman

  Sports, Jobs, Lines

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