Famous Quotes & Sayings

Now is the time when companies finalize their budgets for the coming year or make last-minute cutbacks to improve the year-end bottom line,

Elizabeth Warren

No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever.

Once we get guys in scoring position, we're kind of limited. The bottom line is we haven't done that with the consistency that we need to. ... We have one, two, three, four, five legitimate .300 hitters. Now we need guys who can hit for power.

During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.

Jiang Zemin

During my flight to Chile, I was thinking about our pilot, and we don't know where he is, and our plane is at the bottom of the ocean,

Dedicated is the right word for my group of runners. I feel the reason kids compete in cross country is their personalities. Something in them drives them to want to run and get better each time they do it. Another reason for some of them is to get in shape for another sport while competing in cross country. Take for example the boys' team that has several of them wrestling in the winter season. So, it's in their nature to want to be competitive in whatever they do. Also, I have kids out here that do it because they love to run. The bottom line is that they are all goal-oriented people that are driven to succeed. And, for the most part, they are all the same way in the classroom.

Companies are still in the process of eking out good productivity improvement and maintaining good support to their bottom lines as a result.

Developing the plan, I realized I really need to emphasize what makes (me) different from everybody else. In the landscape industry where price is usually the bottom line, it's really tough to sell yourself on any point other than that, but it's something that, in order to survive, you need to do to set yourself apart.

They have squandered about every opportunity to get it right. The bottom line is they are significantly lowering expectations.

There's a lot of movement in this league under any circumstances, and a coach is going to do what he feels he needs to do to win hockey games. The bottom line is winning. If things aren't working for you, there's going to be changes.

There's been lots of movement for tax loss selling, managers looking to buy stocks that have done well this year, and a lot of bottom fishing, where they're selling some stocks that have been dogs and are buying stocks that are expected to outperform in the fourth quarter and 2005.

There's been a long-term interest in why it is that high latitude climate seems to be warming more rapidly than the rest of the world. Basically, I thought that maybe vegetation would be having a large influence, but the bottom line of that paper is that snowmelt swamps the vegetation.

There seems to be no end to the reports that show Ireland to be at the bottom, or close to the bottom in terms of broadband. We need to learn from the Northern Ireland model and make moves on unbundling the local loop and generating more competition in the market.

Steve Alford

There's a lot that can change in five games, including the standings. Two weeks from now we might be talking about teams at the bottom of our league no longer at the bottom and teams at the top of the league no longer at the top.

At least the top two stories are ablaze, and the bottom three or four stories ablaze. And in the middle, between the two sets of flames, lights are still burning.

A thicker layer of ice requires some manual labor, so we tested the latest ice scrapers. We did this by freezing water to the bottom of the pan and then scraping that ice off with the ice scrapers we were testing.

As we look out into the future, the most valuable information is not only going to come from the top down - where most of it's coming from now, from overseas - but also from the bottom up. We need to be sure that we don't just have the right communications and technology, but also the right training in terms of analysis.

Chad Williams

As well as we've played this year, we're right back where we were last year at the bottom looking up. Not that I think we're a bottom of the league team but that's where we are. We're 9-4 overall, but two of those losses come in the league.

A strong top line, coupled with strong management and continuing productivity gains and sensible cost management has contributed to a very strong bottom line.

Richard Smalley

The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.

John Shea

a collection of organizations, some good, some reasonably good, some bureaucratic, some full of corruption, some wasteful. The bottom line is they are not doing the job.

Danny Bonaduce

They say you have to hit rock bottom before you get better. Unfortunately, I hit it on TV.

Benjamin Franklin

Always taking out of the meal - tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom

A lot of people were hoping to see a bottom in the first quarter of the calendar year. At the very least, it looks like the bottom is getting pushed back to the second quarter.

A lot of sellers really just care about the bottom line. They don't even want to read the letters.

A lot of us were victims ourselves. I think we've become thirstier when we speak about getting to the bottom of an issue. We've become even more relentless because the information is crucial and critical.

They knocked shots down (while we were) trying to get back in a rhythm. But the important thing is that we won by 20 points and that's the bottom line.

They knew that this would happen and they let it happen. Everybody talks a good story, but this should have been corrected. Bottom line for me, I don't care how he got in the water. He got in the water and the water killed him.

They outplayed us and they wanted it more. They played with more heart than us bottom line.

Rod Barajas

The young pitchers have struggled some, but they need to go out there and establish themselves. If you want to be around next year, you have to go out and pitch. That's the bottom line. I hope we continue doing that and these guys develop into quality guys on our staff.

They never quit. We could never put them away. But the bottom line is to win and move on.

They have good revenue growth but the bottom line is still red ink.

They have been around since 1986, they're established, but where's the bottom line?