Bottom Quotes - Page 38

• Here's the bottom line, we're either going or not.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Lines, Bottom Line

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• If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.

  Richard Branson

  Crush, Lying, Competition

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• Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.

  Richard Branson

  Growth, Survival, Lines

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• 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

  Looks, Lines, Return

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• Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

  Phil McGraw

  Life, Family, Happiness

  "Q: Who is the Most Straightforward Host on TV Today?". Interview with Kelley Reese, northtexan.unt.edu. August 31, 2003.

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• When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

  Rumi

  Conformity, Wells, Knows

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• I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.

  John Bonham

  Dad, Coffee, Years

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• How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Reality, Appreciate, Secret

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• The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

  Kresley Cole

  Respect, Hurt, Insulting

  Kresley Cole (2012). “Lothaire”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

  Jack White

  Art, Successful, Effort

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  The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

  Woody Guthrie

  Fall, Machines, Helping

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

  Jerry Falwell

  Philosophy, War, Biblical

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• I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

  Don Bluth

  Thinking, Artist, Rings

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Principles, Necks, Opportunist

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• At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

  Gautama Buddha

  People, Listening, Want

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• My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

  A. J. McLean

  Nice, Ideas, Perfect

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• Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “Ghosts”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Designer Clothes, Victim

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• The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS COMING CAN BE SUMMED UP IN, 'JESUS IS TRYING TO HELP GET MORE SOULS INTO HEAVEN, AS OPPOSED TO HELL, AFTER THEY DIE.' I JUST THINK A FAIR READING OF THE GOSPELS BLOWS THAT OUT OF THE WATER. I don't think that the entire message and life of Jesus can be boiled down to that bottom line

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Reading, Blow

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• Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

  Gregory Bateson

  Together, Fabric, Alive

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• Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

  Jack Welch

  Management, Holding On, Failing

  “WrittenJack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace“ by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

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• The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

  Bill Walsh

  Practice, Organization, Nfl

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• The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Worry, Neurotic

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Want, Painting, Finished

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• This years keynote session is a clear reminder that wireless data technology is expanding its reach beyond that of an alternative to wireline telephony. We have gathered an exclusive group of business leaders to share how wireless is being integrated into their companys business strategies and what it means for their bottom lines. The presence of these telecom, media and entertainment giants on our center stage is a great indicator of the impact wireless data has made on countless industries.

  Steve Largent

  Mean, Technology, Impact

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