A Quote by William Arthur Ward

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

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William Arthur Ward
American - Writer
1921 - 1994

Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.

Steve Jobs

Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.

Mitt Romney

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.

Alan Arkin

When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.

Donald Rumsfeld

We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.

Ray Anderson

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

Yuri Milner

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

Yuri Milner

It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

Dick Morris

Yes, negotiating is about money and the bottom line, but a lot of times, it's much more emotional and complex than that. Realizing that the economic outcome may not be the other party's top priority gives you more chips to play with and will enable you to achieve better results than you may have anticipated.

Ivanka Trump

Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.

Federica Mogherini

I truly believe that the combination of a strong top line together with a strong bottom line is what makes for a sustainable business.

Irene Rosenfeld

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

James Spader

I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.

Twiggy

The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.

J. D. Hayworth

I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.