Business quotes

“The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“- Rollo Lee: Starting with his father's radio stations in New Zealand, he has built up a global empire currently worth more than six billion dollars... and growing.
- Bugsy Malone: How much does he want in the end? How much bigger does he want to get?
- Rollo Lee: Well, there aren't any limits. He wants growth.”

John Marwood Cleese - Rollo Lee
Michael Palin - Bugsy Malone

“Stay in this business long enough and every street leads to a place you'd like to forget, every case brings back memories of what you should have done and what might have been, and every skirt reminds you of another woman... or, if you've got it bad enough, the same woman.”

Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Rocky Sullivan: Oh, come on, don't be such an angel. You wanna get the center built, don't you? Well, go ahead - get it started.
- Father Jerry: Sure I wanna get it started; but I don't wanna get it started on rotten foundations.”

James Cagney - Rocky Sullivan
Pat O'Brien - Father Jerry

“- Vince: Look, I don't wanna get in the middle of no big gang hassle!
- Savon: Gang? You think we some punk-ass gang?
- King James: I am a businessman. These are my associates.”
Bill Paxton - Vince
Ice Cube - Savon
Ice-T - King James

“You see that building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.”

Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

- Rotelli: What if we say "no"?
- Joker: Well, Tony, nobody wants a war. If we can't do business, why, we'll just shake hands and that'll be it.
- Rotelli: Yeah?
- Joker: Yeah.
[Rotelli shakes hands with Joker and starts to get electrocuted]
Edwin Craig - Rotelli
Jack Nicholson - Joker

“That's what show business is all about. Acting like an idiot. It's not you, you're just doing your job. You know what I mean. Look at it this way, most people feel like idiots most of the time. But they don't get paid for it.”
Michael J. Fox - Michael Chapman

“I've discovered it's not actually terribly difficult to make money in the securities business.”
John Standing - Peter Baring

“Why can't your plastic surgeon give the stock market a lift?”

Dean Jones - Mr. Flint

“- Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates: Tomorrow, you become a man of business!
- Young Scrooge: I'm looking forward to it, Headmaster.
- Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates: Mm, you will love business. It is the American way!
- The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens: Sam...
- Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior...” (continue)(continue reading)
Frank Oz - Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates
Theo Sanders - Young Scrooge
Dave Goelz - The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens

“I got me a rule: never do business with people you ain't never done business with before without backup. And that's why I need you: backup.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie

“- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: Why should you carry other people's bags?
- Porter: Well, that's my business, Madame.
- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: That's no business. That's social injustice.
- Porter: That depends on the tip.”
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“Danel is our man. Lincoln freed the slaves. Mr. Danel is back in the trade and doing very well at it.”
Addison Richards - Jackson

“- Simon Wilder: How many bottles of that wine would you be willing to give me to fix it?
- Everett Calloway: To get this thing running? Six.
- Simon Wilder: Eight.
- Everett Calloway: Seven.
- Simon Wilder: Eight.
- Everett Calloway: Okay, nine, but that's my final offer.
- Simon Wilder: Didn't you used to run a saving and loan?”
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder
Patrick Dempsey - Everett Calloway

- Mrs. Archer: Beaufort is a vulgar man.
- Newland Archer: Nevertheless, no business nuisance escapes him. Most of New York trusts him with its affairs.
- Mrs. Archer: My grandfather, Newland, always used to say to mother, "don't let that fellow Beaufort be introduced to the girls".
Siân Phillips - Mrs. Archer
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Archbishop Gilday: The Pope is gravely ill. Until he recovers, I am powerless.
- B.J. Harrison: What if he dies?
- Frederick Keinszig: Then, as you Americans say, all bets are off.”
Donal Donnelly - Archbishop Gilday
George Hamilton - B.J. Harrison
Helmut Berger - Frederick Keinszig

- Luis Cali: What does your father do, William?
- William "Billy" Tepper: He's a contractor.
- Luis Cali: According to this he owns the third largest construction company in the world.
- William "Billy" Tepper: Yeah, he's a contractor.
Andrew Divoff - Luis Cali
Sean Astin - Billy Tepper

“As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“- Jack: Is that business or pleasure?
- Angela: Is there a difference?”

Jeremy Northam - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Angela

“There are rules... you break the rules and this whole god damn thing of ours crack and crumbles...”

Anthony Quinn - Neil Dellacroce

“- Huxley: Bug, what are you doing?
- Bug: Just having a little snack. Hard to do an evil bidding on an empty stomach.”
Mandy Patinkin - Huxley
Joey Mazzarino - Bug

“- Salim: I want to talk to Omar about business.
- Johnny: I dunno where he is.
- Salim: Is it worth waiting?
- Johnny: In my experience, it's always worth waiting for Omo.”
Derrick Branche - Salim
Daniel Day-Lewis - Johnny

“You know what I say. Whenever you got business trouble the best thing to do is to get a lawyer. Then you got more trouble, but at least you got a lawyer.”
Chico Marx - Antonio Pirelli

“I appreciate your curiosity but my agenda doesn't concern you.”

Michael Douglas - Steven Taylor