“Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.” NeedsHumansLinesCompanyFocusProductsAchievementWestBottomEastEmphasisBottom LineHuman RelationshipsWesternersAffiliation Author:Daniel Goleman
“The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.” MatterHelpingUseTodayProcessLinesCompanyEnvironmentDevelopmentResearchConcernImpactEnvironmentalBottomBottom LineEcologicalResearch And DevelopmentEnvironmental Impact Author:Daniel Goleman
“I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.” WorldShouldIdeasUseRunningSchoolLinesDecisionLove IsBusinessCompanyPrinciplesLaborResponsibleManagementBottomProfitBoringCaringFeminineHungRecognizingIntuitiveHierarchyBottom LineBeing ResponsibleBusiness School Author:Anita Roddick
“I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.” AmericaCoursesCompanyShareBottomFolksAfrican AmericanDoomedMy ThoughtsGloomy Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayMindFirstsArtBookOrderEasyLinesQualityCompanyCuttingDesignProduceWillingProductsPridePagesBottomCornersFinishedWorks Of ArtBottom LineOne WordIllustrationEasy WayAbram Author:Stan Lee
“The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.” MenShouldKindLittlesMadeDifferentDoneMovingPresidentCompanyKnowingSonCircumstancesOrganizationStrongerPlantWorkersBottomConvincedLawyerPracticalsTitlesExecutivesFactoriesDifferent KindsLaddersChairmanRisenCollarsPapaWorkmenCuffsFinanciersAdvisable Author:B. C. Forbes
“In almost any change there is 20 - 60 - 20. 20% are doing the change and we need to stay out of their way. 20% will never get there (a large percent still go into banks to see tellers vs. ATMs). 60% are in the middle. I think you will always find some companies where the head of HR is not a member of senior management team (bottom 20% and some companies where she or he has always been (top 20%).” ThinkingWayNeedsStillsCompanyTeamMiddleMembersPercentManagementBottomSeniorAtmSenior Management Author:Dave Ulrich
“We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.” BelieveCommunityLinesBusinessCompanyBottomCustomersObligationEmployeeBottom LineShareholdersSuppliers Author:John A. Byrne
“Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.” HumansTodayFightingLinesCompanyProduceIntellectualCompetitionBottomSuperiorsDependentComparisonContinuingBottom LineMembershipOutput Author:Arie de Geus
“The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.” CountryBigsTermLinesCompanyBottomBottom LineShort TermBig Companies Author:Alexandra Paul
“I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.” WritingGuyNextCompanyBuildingBottomStudiosPublishingNashvilleOld Buildings Author:Donnie Fritts
“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.” GivingLittlesLinesPayCompanyReturnCostBenefitsInvestmentBottomRecognitionUnexpectedIronicImpressiveBottom LinePerksReturn On Investment Author:Chip Conley