The bottom line is that it's best to look at what the companies are actually doing rather than pay too much attention to what they're saying.

This is a sound contradiction because CEOs should be the visionaries and CFOs should be the bottom line worrywarts, ... Financial officers should be worrying about all of the costs, the pitfalls and the risks.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

The bottom line is that there's got to be different strokes for different folks. The point is to have enough variety so that you appeal to all different generations and all different kinds of people.