Famous Quotes & Sayings

I thought our triple bottom line was science, technology and community support. It seems the (triple bottom line) concept has gone to a purely economic framework.

I think we're seeing investors being convinced that we hit the bottom and from here we'll go through some softening of the economy. But if we're going to get back into the market, we want to do it now because the market is a leading indicator.

I think we've tried to be competitive but start our people at the bottom with the expectation if they do a good job, they will get raises over the years.

I think what this does is force us to win the (conference) tournament. That's the bottom line right now. But we can't be concerned with the big picture. We haven't been all year and we can't be now. We've just got to play one game at a time and not worry about anything else.

I think by any measure we are at a major bottom, but bottoms don't happen overnight. Stocks can hit a bottom and then trade sideways, go up and down as they adjust. But I'd be stunned if we traded more than 10 percent lower.

I think Burger King hit bottom around two years ago and they are improving off of that bottom but to equate them to McDonald's or even think that they are going to be a force to be reckoned with ... is a mistake.

I think a lot of people want to let the market find a bottom before they step back in.

Scott Maddox

I think a lot has changed since 2000, and it's changed for the worse. The bottom line: We can't let it be close, because if they can cheat, they will.

Alan Arkin

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

We're not going to be state-of-the-art just to be state-of-the-art. We're implementing these technologies because they will ultimately help us serve our customers better. That's the bottom line.

There are people at the bottom who are worse off. We need to do something about that.

We still have four regular-season games and we're trying to move up from the bottom of the West.

We still have a way to go before we are out of the woods, but we may be seeing the bottom now.

Jason Varitek

Those games are great. They are great for the organization and the publicity of your team. The only downfall is that sometimes you are playing in Texas and you turn around the next day and you are playing in Boston. We've had the bottom half of some of those results.

John Milton

To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire.

Kobe Bryant

We are going from the bottom to the top all together so it's important for us to enjoy the journey, and that is what we are doing right now. We have four days off coming up here, and I would have been sick as a dog if we would have lost this game. I just wanted to step up and inspire us to play well, and it turned into something special.

Antonio Gates

We understood that it was raining and we knew that we had to be careful making our cuts. But at the same time, they played with the same field. When their offense was out there they weren't playing on a separate field. All of those things are just excuses. The bottom line is that they outplayed us today and they deserved (the win).

Bruce Bochy

We shot ourselves in the foot a couple innings there, and that was the difference in the ballgame. We fought hard to try to get back to winning the game, and came close, but bottom line is we didn't play well tonight.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few.

With earnings season on the horizon, the bottom line could prove to be our catalyst back to the upside, as lofty expectations have been deflated with stock prices over the past few days.

With our new infrastructure, Cole Haan can closely monitor its cost of goods sold and have better control over its bottom line.

Cate Blanchett

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

Karen Finney

We will have the resources to do what we need to do. We are committed to investing in state parties and rebuilding the grass roots from the bottom up.

We want to win the Cup. Bottom line is that's more important to us than any other form of racing we're doing.

Paul Begala

The president's bottom line again, election year or not, is youth smoking, saving kids lives.

Dick Durbin

Two strikes and two outs in the bottom of the ninth and Gore gets a hit,

Ed McMahon

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

Frank Oz

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

Edward Kitsis

My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I've never seen before like 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or the 'Planet of the Apes' TV show.

We?re still under construction. That?s the bottom line.

Mark Pryor

We're trying to get to the bottom of that.

Benjamin Percy

Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

The real story on Ryan is how he has overcame his setbacks. Because when you climb to the top - become a starter - and an injury occurs that keeps you out for a long time, you have to start back at the bottom rung. Ryan fought his way back up.