Business quotes

“- Sim Carstairs: Ten year I been ferryin' Kansas Redlegs, Union cavalry, Missouri guerillas... you name it. Mad dogs them guerillas. You look sideways at 'em...
[snaps a rope like a noose]
- Sim Carstairs: ... They kill ya.
- Carpetbagger: Sound like hard men to do business with.”
William O'Connell - Sim Carstairs
Woodrow Parfrey - Carpetbagger

“The buying and selling of dope in this country may be the last vestige of free enterprise left.”

Stacy Keach - The Narcs: Sergeant Stedenko

“Mr. Creighton, you're a good man to do business with.”

Barton MacLane - Jack Slade

“- Tess McGill: I have a head for business and a body for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?
- Jack Trainer: Uh, no. No.”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill
Harrison Ford - Jack Trainer

“Give you two-hundred of my record? I don't give record - I sell record!”

“- Jack Grace: Some nights I go out with Charlie and I rip off foreign business men. You should turn me into the police, you'd be doing the world a favor.
- Claire Harrison: It's too late. Someone already did. I'm an undercover agent for the RICO squad.”
Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison

“The Burns family run a general store in a one store town and still managed to do badly. They were Methodists, a denomination my father referred to as Baptists who could read.”
Robert Redford - Narrator

“If there was no honor among perverts and pornographers, the whole fucking business would fall apart.”
Anthony Heald - Daniel Longdale

“- Taphir: Our law is She, the goddess, who's your god?
- Dick: Our god? We don't have god, we do business.”
Laurie Sherman - Taphir
Harrison Muller - Dick

“Him, Peter, is the top boy - he runs the show. And him, Wayne, does whatever Peter tells him. And Jason, well... every firmneeds a mad acid-bath murderer, don't they?”
Charlie Creed-Miles - Billy Reynolds

“When the doctors start acting like businessmen, who do the people turn to for doctors?”
Ken Jenkins - Dr. Dennis Donohue

“- Abe: Cars? You brought me here for cars?
- Preston Tucker: Does that look like a car to you? That, is a gold mine I'm handing you on a silver platter.”
Martin Landau - Abe
Jeff Bridges - Preston Tucker

“Ideas? Einstein's in the idea business; he makes up numbers so high only dogs can hear them. But what does it cost him? A piece of paper, a couple of pencils.”
Martin Landau - Abe

“Friends don't fuck with each other's business.”
Timothy Olyphant - Kelly

“Loyalty is fine, but this is business.”
Dustin Hoffman - Teach

“- Daredevil: You killed the only two people I ever loved. Why?
- The Kingpin: Business. That's all it ever is, is business.”
Ben Affleck - Daredevil
Michael Clarke Duncan - The Kingpin

“- Steve Jobs: This is like doing business with a praying mantis. You get seduced, and then eaten alive afterwards?
- Bill Gates: Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there...” (continue)(continue reading)
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs
Anthony Michael Hall - Bill Gates

“I've got tides to regulate! Comets to direct! I don't have time for flatulence and orgasms!”
Robin Williams - King of the Moon

“There's business and there's friendship. Watcha gotta do is keep clear of who your friends are and who treated you like what or else because the rest is garbage.”

Dennis Franz - Don

“How many of you out there have heard of alternative engines? Engines that can run on anything from alcohol to garbage or water. Or carburetors that can get hundreds of miles to the gallon. Or electric or magnetic engines, that can practically run forever. You don't know about them because if they were to come into use, they'd put the oil...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Seagal - Forrest Taft

“How you supposed to run a successful business, you ain't got no Schlitz Malt Liquor! You ain't representing! You ain't keepin' it real!”
Orlando Jones - Daryl Chase

“- Carlito: So look at you. You really made something of your life.
- Kleinfeld: You put me in business. All my first clients came through you.”
Al Pacino - Carlito
Sean Penn - Kleinfeld

“Without the Toxic Avenger gone, we will never win the hearts of the little people of Tromaville. And without Tromaville, we'll never take New York. And without New York, we're just another failure!”
Rick Collins - Inc. Chairman

“- Buddy: It's Yom Kippur, you idiot.
- Guy: Oh, I didn't realize Ackerman was a Jewish name.
- Buddy: It's Jewish enough, especially when the big players are involved. Besides, I have a sudden need to atone for my sins.”

Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman
Frank Whaley - Guy

“- Chuck Clarke: You mean you bought a camel?
- Lyle Rogers: No, I didn't really buy it. They sold it to me! I think that something went wrong and now I own a blind camel. A blind camel!”
Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers