Business quotes

“We in the show business have our religion too - on every day, the show must go on!”
Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz

“I used to have a friend that was an opera singer. Then he went into the cement business - and one day he fell into the cement. And now he's the cornerstone of the post office in St. Louis, Missouri. He shoulda stuck to his own trade. You better stick to yours.”

James Stewart - Tom Destry Jr.

“- Victor Romero: I'll tell you my deal. People I do business with are sayin' I'm too hot, like maybe I won't be 'round next year. That this cat Robicheaux is a hardtail and don't play. So you're fucking me, man.
- Dave Robicheaux: Hey, Victor... I really don't give a shit about your problems. So why don't you write all this down on a postcard...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hawthorne James - Victor Romero
Alec Baldwin - Dave Robicheaux

“Why don't you start a consulting firm? There's always somebody out there willing to pay an opinionated old bastard for some shitty advice.”

Austin Lysy - Liam

“- Isaak: Mr. Sing... with all due respect, there is no way in the world that anybody in my camp would be foolish enough to touch your family, any more than anybody in your camp would be stupid enough to touch mine. It just wouldn't happen.
- Ch'u Sing: Our business venture will continue.
- Isaak: I'm pleased to hear that, thank you.”

Delroy Lindo - Isaak O'Day
Henry O - Ch'u Sing

“Knowing who to trust is everything in this business.”
Dame Judi Dench - M

“Well, if you're espousing a philosophy, which apparently you are, that the corporation owes employees cradle-to-the-grave security, I don't think that can be accomplished under a free enterprise system.”
Tom Kay - Himself

“You paid one hundred thousand dollars for that! Paid it to the killer! Do you call that journalism? We're in show business, baby. Make them laugh, make them cry, make them buy, by and by.”

Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale

“- Chev Chelios: You might be interested in a little deal... I want the antidote.
- Verona: What are you prepared to give me, asshole?
- Chev Chelios: How about the jewelry I got off that faggot brother of yours, you fucking cocksucker?”
Jason Statham - Chev Chelios
Jose Pablo Cantillo - Verona

“- Longfellow Deeds: So how is the elevator business treating you, Reuben?
- Reuben: Oh, it has its ups and downs.”
Adam Sandler - Longfellow Deeds
J.B. Smoove - Reuben

“- Patch Gallagher: I don't mix business with pleasure.
- Janie Barlow: Well, it'd be a pleasure to me if you'd mind your own business.”
Clark Gable - Patch Gallagher
Joan Crawford - Janie Barlow

“- King James: Raymond. I need you to do some recon for me. See how those country motherfuckers got here. I know they didn't walk.
- Raymond: I ain't got time to be playin' army with you trigger-happy motherfuckers! I got business to tend to!
- King James: Cancel it. I'm hiring you for the rest of the day.”

Ice-T - King James
Bruce A. Young - Raymond

“- Bob Lachman: I'll tell you what I think. I think thank you are spending development money on stupid toys.
- Brad Sexton: These are not stupid toys! These are business tools! I write all this stuff off.”
Wayne Knight - Bob Lachman
Tim Allen - Brad Sexton

“I didn't mean to weird you out. I was wrong, please. I just get paranoid sometimes. I'm drunk. I'm tired, and I've just been fornicating for the past two hours, and before that I was doing shit, horrible business shit.”
Pierce Brosnan - Julian Noble

“- Toni Mannix: Just made it.
- George Reeves: I beg your pardon?
- Toni Mannix: Into the picture.
- George Reeves: Was someone taking a picture? I hadn't noticed.”
Diane Lane - Toni Mannix
Ben Affleck - George Reeves

“Be sexy in business. Be successful at night.”
Annie McEnroe - Kay Culver

“It's good for your soul to invest in something you can't control.”
Jimmy Fallon - Ben

- Jimmy: I still don't see how renting is funny.
- Virus: Well, it's not funny. It's cheating.
- Jimmy: But funny and cheating are synonyms.
- Virus: Whatever.
- Jimmy: "Whatever". Good response; I guess you win.
David Pasquesi - Jimmy
Mitch Rouse - Virus

“Success in business is fifty per cent hard work and fifty per cent the right cigar.”
Melvyn Douglas - Larry Baker

“We men of business must think of the house we serve more than ourselves.”
Claude Gillingwater - Jarvis Lorry Jr.

“- Bill Tyler: I heard you got in on the money end of this miserable business.
- Henry Frapp: Yep. Packed in supplies, watered down the whiskey, jacked up the prices... and went to tradin' for beaver.
- Bill Tyler: How'd ya do?
- Henry Frapp: I lost my ass!”
Charlton Heston - Bill Tyler
Brian Keith - Henry Frapp

“Opium is my business. The bridge mean more traffic. More traffic mean more business. More business mean money. More money mean more power.”

Ernest Harada - Chung Mee

“I happen to know Mexico like the back of my hand. I am internationally known. I’ve done mischief everywhere. Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil... all them Mexican countries.”
Eddie Griffin - Freddy Tiffany

“Big pharmaceuticals are right up there with the arms dealers.”
Pete Postlethwaite - Lorbeer

“If nobody comes down here and buys a car in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right! I'm gonna club this seal to make a better deal. You know I'll do it, too, cause I'm crazy.”
John Cadenhead - Crazy Ernie