Business quotes

“You want me to speculate on what you do. My guess is you're in the drug business, except the money's moving the wrong way. Whatever you're into, you seem to be getting away with it, so more power to you.”

Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“We simply cannot let our competition be nuttier than we are.”

Macaulay Culkin - Richie Rich

“Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, and tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Durning - Charley

“- Walter Fielding: It doesn't make any sense, why would somebody be selling a million dollar house for a hundred thousand?
- Jack Schnittman: Who knows? A divorce, loan sharks, a scandal. The point is you get to capitalize on another human being's misfortune. That's the basis of real estate.”
Tom Hanks - Walter Fielding
Josh Mostel - Jack Schnittman

“- Walter Burns: You persuade Hildy to do the story and you can write out a nice fat insurance policy for me.
- Bruce Baldwin: I refuse to use my wife for business purposes.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin

“There's always some unhappy corner of the globe where we can ply our trade.”
Lance Henriksen - Emil Fouchon

“- Alexander Rance: What do you think you're going to accomplish by interfering with our business, Mr. Sullivan?
- Michael Sullivan: This has nothing to do with your business.
- Alexander Rance: It's all business. That's what you fail to grasp. And in business, you must have something to trade. And you, Mr. Sullivan, have nothing to trade.”
Dylan Baker - Alexander Rance
Tom Hanks - Michael Sullivan

“- Mrs. Claypool: I think we'd better keep everything on a business basis.
- Otis B. Driftwood: Every time I get romantic with you, you want to talk business. I don't know, there's something about me that brings out the business in every woman.”

Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Claypool
Groucho Marx - Otis B. Driftwood

“Corporate thinking sucks.”
June Havoc - Helen Morell

“Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“If you grew up anywhere in Texas, you knew at an early age they was selling somethin' out there, and it wasn't poultry!”

Jim Nabors - Deputy Fred

“- Rocco: Want to start making some real money, Charlie?
- Carlito Brigante: Like, who don't?”
Michael Kelly - Rocco
Jay Hernandez - Carlito Brigante

“- Freedonia's Secretary of War #1: That's the last straw, I resign! I wash my hands of the whole business!
- Rufus T. Firefly: Good idea, you can wash your neck, too!”

Edwin Maxwell - Freedonia's Secretary of War #1
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“Remember, a younger customer always turns into a loyal customer. Remember that! Remember that!”
Joe Pesci - Mr. Big

“Anne Shirley, I wouldn't trade you for a dozen boys.”
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“First, my friends are too busy to hang out with me... And now, I'm too busy to hang out with me.”
Macaulay Culkin - Richie Rich

“You've got strange ideas about justice. You don't want to hit nobody unless they deserve it. Now, that's all right, but we're in business. And business is different!”

George "Gabby" Hayes - Doc Grunch

“- Mrs. Boyle: Leaving him alone again, I see.
- Rachel: Sticking your sweet face in everybody's business again, I see.”
Annabelle Weenick - Mrs. Boyle
Ruby Dee - Rachel

“We're in the business of winning.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Coach Gary Gaines

“- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: It is against the leu for you to play your musical instrument.
- Blind Beggar: Leu?
- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: What?
- Blind Beggar: You say, it's against the leu?
- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: Yes. Unless you have a proper license.
- Blind Beggar: What kind of license?
- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: A license that permits the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Sellers - Clouseau
John Bluthal - Blind Beggar

“- John Beckwith: For longer than I care to remember, my business has been crashing weddings. I crashed weddings to meetgirls. Business was good. I met a lot of girls. It was childish and it was juvenile.
- Claire Cleary: And pathetic.”
Owen Wilson - John Beckwith
Rachel McAdams - Claire Cleary

“You sell roaches? Damn, I'm in the wrong business! I could make money and never leave my apartment.”

Keenen Ivory Wayans - Det. Jim Campbell

“- Harold 'Happy' Loman: My brother is - I think he pulled off a big deal today. I think we're going into business together.
- Stanley: Great! That's the best. Because a family business, you know what I mean?-that's the best.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: That's what I think.
- Stanley: 'Cause what's the difference? Somebody steals? It's in the family....” (continue)(continue reading)
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman
Tom Signorelli - Stanley

“- Apocalypse, Inc. Chairman: Mr. Junko, we need someone charming, smart looking, good with people, to be the spokesman for our company and to help spread the good news of our policies.
- The Toxic Avenger: Just what are your policies?
- Apocalypse, Inc. Chairman: Our policies, Mr Junko? Giving! That's our policy! Giving to the people what they...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rick Collins - Inc. Chairman
Ron Fazio - The Toxic Avenger

“Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.”
Steve Martin - Jimmy Dell