Quote is a Dutch monthly magazine that focuses on business, money, careers, networks and lives of people at the top.

Endstra, who had always denied his links with the underworld, filed for a preliminary injunction demanding that Quote be withdrawn from sale.

[7][8] Quote's editorial office was shot at in November 2003; nineteen bullets were fired at the building in the middle of the night.

[9][10] In January 2005, Quote made headlines with the claim that in 1998, Nina Brink, the founder of World Online, a Dutch Internet service provider, had been involved in a premeditated sex scandal and had forced the chairman of the board to resign.

[11][12] On 21 July 2006, Maarten van den Biggelaar and the two co-owners sold Quote to Hachette Filipacchi Médias (HFM).