Business quotes

“- Analyst: You are the only financial institution that can't produce a balance sheet or cash flow statement with their earnings...
- Jeff Skilling: You, you, you... Well, uh... thank you very much. We appreciate it... asshole.”
Jeff Skilling - Himself

I know some of you have never been in the motion picture business before, and some of you have been at it a long time. But I want all of you to look at the faces out here during this picture. There's gonna be room in their heads for only one thought: "Don't let it get me". They know we can't hurt them, but they're still gonna be scared half to... (continue)(continue reading)

John Goodman - Lawrence Woolsey

“- Spaldoni: I'm out.
- Big Boy Caprice: It only works if we're all in.
- Spaldoni: Then it doesn't work.”
James Caan - Spaldoni
Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice

“- Cragg: Well, that's a business in itself.
- Lily: Oh, I guess I ain't much of a business woman.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“Everything that I or Fletcher know we picked up on the street. That's all business is - common sense, experience, and talent.”

Dennis Franz - Don

“In what other business can a man my age walk out on stage, smoke a cigar, tell a few jokes, sing a few songs, and use the same color lipstick that Dolores del Rio uses?”
George Burns - Milt Lackey

“Show business is, is dog-eat-dog. It's worse than dog-eat-dog. It's dog-doesn't-return-other-dog's-phone-calls, which reminds me I should check my answering service.”
Woody Allen - Cliff Stern

“- Vincent Benedict: You could be a boxer or something. I could be your manager.
- Julius Benedict: No, I could never fight for money.
- Vincent Benedict: Well that's fine. You fight, I'll keep the money.”
Danny DeVito - Vincent Benedict
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Julius Benedict

“The stockholder of yesteryear is the stowaway of today.”
Groucho Marx - Groucho

“- Ed Dillinger: ENCOM isn't the business you started in your garage anymore. We're building accounts in thirty different countries. New defense systems. We have one of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment in existence.
- Dr. Walter Gibbs: Oh, I know all that. Sometimes I wish I were back in that garage.
- Ed Dillinger: That can be arranged...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Warner - Ed Dillinger
Barnard Hughes - Dr. Walter Gibbs

“- Joe Gould: You're all heart.
- Jimmy Johnston: My heart is for my family. My brains and my balls are for business.”
Paul Giamatti - Joe Gould
Bruce McGill - Jimmy Johnston

“Then me and you and them, we're gonna open up a... a used car lot. You sell 'em, we steal 'em.”

Bo Hopkins - Little Joe

“- James Bond: Where did you recruit all these lovelies?
- Octopussy: There are many of them all over Southeast Asia, looking for a guru, spiritual discipline, who knows what. l train them. Give them a purpose, a sisterhood and a way of life.
- James Bond: In crime?
- Octopussy: In business. I have diversified into shipping, hotels, carnivals and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond
Maud Adams - Octopussy

“- Joseph Pulitzer: Anyone who doesn't act in their own self interest is a fool.
- David Jacobs: Then what does that make you?
- Joseph Pulitzer: What?
- Jack Kelly: Oh, this is my pal, Davey. The Walkin' Mouth.
- David Jacobs: You talk about self-interest, but since the strike, your circulation's been down 70%.”
Robert Duvall - Joseph Pulitzer
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“- Daffy Duck: You think she's got enough toys?
- Bugs Bunny: Speaking of toys, remember those mugs and t-shoits and lunchboxes with our pictures on 'em?
- Daffy Duck: Yeah.
- Bugs Bunny: You ever see any money from all that stuff?
- Daffy Duck: Hah, not a cent!
- Bugs Bunny: Hmm... me neither.
- Daffy Duck: It's a crying shame. We gotta get new...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dee Bradley Baker - Daffy Duck
Billy West - Bugs Bunny

“I'm a professional businessman not a professional Pakistani. And there is no question of race in the new enterprise culture.”

Saeed Jaffrey - Uncle Nasser

“- Sam: Great place for a business.
- Wesley Birdsong: Do you see much competiton around?”

Chris Cooper - Sam
Gordon Tootoosis - Wesley Birdsong

“Put $50,000 in the right hands and you can test battery acid as skin lotion.”

Anneke Kim Sarnau - Birgit

“You ain't a street hood no more. You a businessman. You gotta start thinking like one.”
Mario Van Peebles - Earl

“- Eddie Valiant: So that's why you killed Acme and Maroon? For this freeway? I don't get it.
- Judge Doom: Of course not. You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Valiant
Chris Lloyd - Judge Doom

“- Ed: So, uh, what kind of business are you in, Max?
- Max Burdett: I have a bunch of sweatshops in the Philippines.
- Ed: Oh.
- Sheila: Oh.
- Max Burdett: You should see those kids make those hats.”

Tom McGowan - Ed
Pierce Brosnan - Max Burdett
Kate Walsh - Sheila

“- Franz Sanchez: I just want you to know that this is nothing personal. It's purely business.
- Felix Leiter: Killing me won't stop anything, Sanchez!
- Franz Sanchez: There are worse things than dying, hombre.
- Felix Leiter: See you in hell!
- Franz Sanchez: No, no. Today is the first day of the rest of your life!”
Robert Davi - Franz Sanchez
David Hedison - Felix Leiter

“People say Hollywood when they want to insult you. Well, really Hollywood is just a place where they make a profit. It's a factory town like Detroit or Birmingham or Schaffhausen. Because the cheap element of the town has been so overly advertised it becomes an insult to remind a man he's from there.”
Clint Eastwood - John Wilson

“I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.”
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“We don't let them lil' girl scouts sell them cookies unless we get a cut of that shit you bitch ass nigga!”
Dartanyan Edmonds - LaDomal