Business quotes

“You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.”
Ed Harris

“- Frank Flannagan: What does he export and what does he import?
- Ariane Chavasse: Oh, he uh - he exports perfume and imports bananas. There's a fortune in it. Do you realize that for one bottle of perfume you get twelve bananas?
- Frank Flannagan: Twelve bananas for one bottle of - doesn't sound like such a hot deal to me.
- Ariane Chavasse:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gary Cooper - Frank Flannagan
Audrey Hepburn - Ariane Chavasse

“- Cody Lambert: That's what we need Tuff, a trademark.
- Tuff Hedeman: I got one, it's hard, full of juice, and barely fits in my jeans.
- Lane Frost: Ohhh, Tuff.
- Tuff Hedeman: It's my flask, Lane. Cody, want some OJ?”
Red Mitchell - Cody Lambert
Stephen Baldwin - Tuff Hedeman
Luke Perry - Lane Frost

“It's not like we're hardened criminals here. We're in show business.”
Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman

“I'm a prophet against profit!”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“Business must be the solution, not the problem.”
William Dennis Weaver

While you two boys were content to sit back and become a couple of also-rans... I wanna take the future. I wanna win. And you don't get there by being some "aw shucks" guy sap. There's no place in business for people like that. Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and put a hose right in... (continue)(continue reading)

Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.”
Larry Miller

“- Distinguished Gentleman: If we don't get that piece then we'll have to wait five thousand years for another alignment.
- Manfred Powell: I don't know about you but I'm not planning to give that much time to this enterprise.”
Richard Johnson - Distinguished Gentleman
Iain Glen - Manfred Powell

“- Jo Ann: Mr. McKussic, it seems, has been engaged in his business for purely romantic reasons, whilst you have been engaged in romance for purely business reasons.
- Nick Frescia: I'm not sure I understand.
- Jo Ann: A little vague for you?
- Nick Frescia: A little.
- Jo Ann: Well, then, let me spell it out for you: you want to fuck your friend...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michelle Pfeiffer - Jo Ann
Kurt Russell - Frescia

“The next time you fuck me, kiss me first!”

Robert Guillaume - Philmore Walker

“From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn.”
Christopher Walken - Frank White

“There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.”
Jeremy Irons - John Tuld

“Nobody wants me to quit. You know, don't quit, don't get caught, stay on top long enough for us to knock you off - I mean, that's the motto around here. Nobody wants me to quit. The cops want to bust me. The Colombians want my connections. My wife, she wants my money. Her lawyer agrees and mine likes getting paid to argue with him. Nobody wants...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mel Gibson - McKussic

“I'm concerned about a Chinaman who thinks it's wise to come to a business transaction with automatic weapons. None of us are carrying automatic weapons. Because here, in this country, it don't add inches to your dick. You get a life sentence for it.”

Jack Nicholson - Frank Costello

“Yeh, that's me taking the bull by the horns, it's how I like to run my business. It's a metaphor. But that actually happened though.”

Ben Stiller - White Goodman

“You'd better not kill me, man, I've got shit to do tomorrow!”

Adam Sandler - Moses

“Put a cork in it honey, I'm talkin business.”

Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig

“They're war slogans. We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the fucking wars. You know why? That's show business. Naked girl covered in Napalm. 'V for Victory'. Five Marines raising the flag. You remember the picture 50 years from now, you'll have forgotten the war. The Gulf War, smart bomb falling down a chimney. 2500 missions a day,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“Every time I call it a business, you call it a game! And every time I call it a game, you call it a business!”

John Matuszak - O. W. Shaddock

“You're not in the oil business; you're in the oil shortage business!”

George C. Scott - Barney Caine

“- Merlin Sheets: Rock, you know, George would like you to consider putting on those damn gloves again. It's a helluva pay day.
- Rocky Balboa: Well, ya know, I'm officially expired.
- George Washington Duke: No, you do have marquee value. You put butts in the buckets, asses in the seats. A businessman, with any sorta brain, don't retire when he...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mike Sheehan - Merlin Sheets
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
Richard Gant - George Washington Duke

“I think the whole Octopus philosophy is poison. The only aim of any and every McCain business is to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize, without ever running a single one of them really well.”
John Marwood Cleese - Rollo Lee

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.”
Fred Thompson - Admiral Painter

“It's surprising to me that Delaware just lets the vendor do it by themselves.”
Rob Cohen