Business quotes

“Business is business and progress is progress.”
Allan Cuthbertson - The Lawyer

“- Dennis: You know what they're going to call us? They'll call us - gangsters! It'll be goodbye to business, gentlemen.
- Moody: We'll be as popular as Hitler.”
Anthony Morton - Dennis
John Bindon - Moody

“The secret to show business is always keep a rabbit in your hat. Or a monkey in your desk, I guess.”
Michael Keaton - V. A. Vandevere

“- Aya: Every other parent was there.
- Trevor 'Viking' Calcote: You're right, I forgot about the bullying seminar. But I'm allowed to forget, you know why? Because I wrote a check for a new computer center. You write a check, you get to skip on 150 bullying seminars. That's the math. That's one of the perks of my business.
- Aya: You're not a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julia Jones - Aya
Tom Bateman - Trevor 'Viking' Calcote

The owners are businessmen. You say art to them, they say, "Art who?" No, all they know about is making money and money they make from people.
Jim Backus - Tom Culdane

“Professor, I must give you back your ten shillings. You see, the cabber wouldn't take any money, because he said he was going into some other business.”
Katie Johnson - The Old Lady - Mrs. Wilberforce

“This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.”
John Aniston

“In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.”
John Aniston

“I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.”
Pamela Anderson

“My drugs are everywhere. They were never my thing, but here I am, running the biggest drug cartel in the world.”
Julianne Moore - Poppy

“Let me explain something to you. Momo is dead. Which means that everything he had now belongs to Jimmy Cap, including you. Which also means, that when I speak, I speak for Jimmy. E.g., from now on, you start showing me the proper fucking respect.”

Dennis Farina - Ray "Bones" Barboni

“- Steve Zissou: I hope you're not gonna bust our chops on this on, Bill.
- Bill Ubell: Why would I do that?
- Steve Zissou: Because you're a bond company stooge.
- Bill Ubell: I'm also a human being.”
Bill Murray - Steve Zissou
Bud Cort - Bill Ubell

“- Commander Lin Mae: Why are you here?
- William: We came to trade.
- Commander Lin Mae: You lie. You are thieves!”
Tian Jing - Commander Lin Mae
Matt Damon - William

“- Fast Freddie: Who are all these people trying to kill you?
- Chili Palmer: I don't know. I'm in the music business now. It could be anybody.”
Anthony J. Ribustello - Fast Freddie
John Travolta - Chili Palmer

“McDonald's... is... family. Isn't that great? You know what I see when I see that? Family. We're one big family. Aren't we? We have mouths to feed. That's a family.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“Let me give you a piece of advice here. You want to make it in this business, you don't have time for a personal life, much less a relationship.”

Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“When I started out I was just a peddler moving across the blind face of a distant land. Moving, always moving. Always gone... and in the end I'd always offer weapons. And they'd always take them. Of course I was gone before they realized what they'd purchased.”
Max von Sydow - Leland Gaunt

“- Felix Cortez: What would you say if I promised you that I would reduce the cocaine shipments to your country by half?
- James Cutter: I'd say you were using too much of your own product.”
Joaquim de Almeida - Felix Cortez
Harris Yulin - James Cutter

“- Richard 'Dick' Brewer: We've got a warrant for you, old man.
- Buckshot Roberts: I ain't got no business with that warrant no more, pecker head son of a bitch.”
Charlie Sheen - Richard 'Dick' Brewer
Brian Keith - Buckshot Roberts

“I'm not in business for love, you know. I was in love once and I got the business.”
Groucho Marx - S. Quentin Quale

“- Randolph Duke: The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions.
- Mortimer Duke: Well? What do you think, Valentine?
- Billy Ray Valentine: Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies.”

Ralph Bellamy - Randolph Duke
Don Ameche - Mortimer Duke
Eddie Murphy - Billy Ray Valentine

“If you can't beat'em, buy'em.”
Nick Offerman - Dick McDonald

“War is always good for certain companies that are in the war. The business of war. If it wasn't for the oil, nobody would be there. Nobody would worry about it.”

Himself - Dr. Sam Kubba

“It's very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only stock brokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Ivor J. Carney

“- Della - Alison's Maid: I suppose these out-of-town dealers have to be entertained. Well, it's business.
- Alison Drake: It certainly isn't pleasure.”

Rafaela Ottiano - Della - Alison's Maid
Ruth Chatterton - Alison Drake