Business quotes

“- David Jacobs: Everyday you're losing thousands of dollars just to beat us out of one lousy tenth of a cent. Why?
- Jack Kelly: You see, it ain't about the money, Dave. It Joe gives in to nobodies like us, it means we got the power. And he can't do that, no matter what it costs.”
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“- Sheriff Langston: The good citizens of Turley have taken me in their embrace and for one simple reason: I maintain the peace. So, when strangers come to town, I always ask them their business. Have you come for the hanging?
- Emmett: I'm just meeting a guy here and moving on.”
John Marwood Cleese - Sheriff Langston
Scott Glenn - Emmett

“- Keaton: I'm a businessman now.
- Interrogation Cop: Yeah? What's that, the restaurant business? No. From now on, you're in the gettin'-fucked-by-us business.”
Gabriel Byrne - Keaton
Christopher McQuarrie - Interrogation Cop

“- Frank: I come here to discuss a piece of business with you, and whadda you gonna do? You gonna tell me fairy tales?
- Attaglia: Hey, who da fuck are you slick? Somebody knows you? What are you, crazy or what?”
James Caan - Frank
Tom Signorelli - Attaglia

“No questions. No answers. That's the business we're in. You just accept it and move on.”

Jean Reno - Vincent

“I want you to know something, Tucker. I went into business with you for one reason - to make money. That's all.”
Martin Landau - Abe

“This is not a business, this is show business. Punching below the belt is not only all right, it's rewarded.”
Benicio del Toro - Rex

“The war is the biggest business in America, worth $80 billion a year.”
Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison

“No one, I am telling you, no one in Beverly Hills is ever going to do business with a black man.”

James Woods - Jake Wise

“I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman, blood is a big expense.”
Al Lettieri - Sollozzo

“- Lil: Hey, this place is my home. And I'm not willing to risk everything I have on your personal life. It's business, plain and simple.
- Violet Sanford: This is not business. I work my ass off for you and you're supposed to be my friend!
- Lil: I never said I was your friend. I'm your boss and you knew the rules like everybody else.”
Maria Bello - Lil
Piper Perabo - Violet Sanford

“- Sam: How'd you get started in this business?
- Deirdre: A wealthy scoundrel seduced and betrayed me.
- Sam: Same with me.”
Robert De Niro - Sam
Natascha McElhone - Deirdre

“- Butch Cassidy: Okay, Ray, same deal. I'll stay out of your jurisdiction.
- Ray Bledsoe: How many places can you promise to stay out of?
- Butch Cassidy: It's a big country.”
Tom Berenger - Butch Cassidy
Jeff Corey - Ray Bledsoe

“- Elvis Presley: Ask not what your rest home can do for you. Ask what you can do for your rest home.
- Jack: Hey, you're copying my best lines!
- Elvis Presley: Then let me paraphrase one of my own. Let's take care of business.”
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley
Ossie Davis - Jack

“- Terry: You think this is the end of it, old man? I'm gonna open Cobra Kai dojos all over this Valley. Hell, I might even teach for free! From now on, all that anyone will know about is Cobra Kai karate. John Kreese's karate. You won't even be a memory!
- Daniel: Yes, he will. You won't.”

Thomas Ian Griffith - Terry
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso

“- Naville: You are going to go to work, my girl.
- Celine Naville: What?
- Naville: You have spent the last quarter of a century watching the tide go in and out, but from tomorrow, you are going to work. Here, under my supervision. You're going to learn the essence of business.”
Sir Ian Holm - Naville
Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville

“Shady business do not make for sunny life.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“Remember, hands and feet we don't need in our business.”
Elizabeth McGovern - Moira

“I think it's time for both of us to quit. I've seen it coming for some time now, cocaine is no goddamn good for anyone. The future, the future is grass... grass, buddy. I got sixty ton of Thai stick coming in... it's on the way.”

Raul Julia - Carlos

“Drug dealers of the world, unite!”
Robert Davi - Franz Sanchez

“- Tess McGill: Look, you, maybe you've got everyone around here fooled with this saint act you have going, but do not ever speak to me again like we don't know what really happened, you got me?
- Katherine Parker: Tess, this is business. Let's just bury the hatchet, okay?”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill
Sigourney Weaver - Katherine Parker

“- Gil Renard: He made this business.
- Garrity: Your father made beautiful knives. San Francisco made this business.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Dan Butler - Garrity

“- Larry Levy: I'll be there right after my AA meeting.
- Griffin Mill: Oh Larry, I didn't realise you had a drinking problem.
- Larry Levy: Well I don't really, but that's where all the deals are being made these days.”
Peter Gallagher - Larry Levy
Tim Robbins - Griffin Mill

“- Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Time is money.
- Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
- Chung Mee: Money is money.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?”
Ernest Harada - Chung Mee
Tom Hanks - Lawrence Bourne III

- Sean: "I have to check with my wife".
- Reggie: What's the phone number? We'll call her right now.
- Bobby: "I have to look a couple other cars first".
- Reggie: Why? Consumer Reports, Car and Driver, Triple AAA: they've looked all the cars for you and they say this one's the best!

Darren Gray Ward - Sean
Daniel Benzali - Reggie
Louis Mandylor - Bobby Deluca