Business quotes

“They called guys like us war dogs. Bottom feeders who make money off of war without ever stepping foot on the battlefield. It was supposed to be derogatory, but... we kind of liked it.”
Miles Teller - David Packouz

“I'll fuckin' sell anything to anybody, Hatcher, except you, man, I wouldn't sell you the sweat off my balls.”
Tony DiBenedetto - Jimmy Fingers

“The art of good business is being a good middleman. Putting people together.”
Daniel Craig - XXXX

“- Dan Trunkman: Well you're the little guy taking on the big guy.
- Chuck Portnoy: You're going to go up against me and Dynamic Systems?
- Dan Trunkman: We're going to be hard to beat.”
Vince Vaughn - Dan Trunkman
Sienna Miller - Chuck Portnoy

“- Alice Keach: Were you always in the... cleaning business, Mr Birkin?
- Birkin: My father traveled in... soap.”
Natasha Richardson - Alice Keach
Colin Firth - Birkin

“Son, I hate to say this, but in your heart you know it anyway. You're not within twenty years of running a company bigger than a bicycle shop, let alone a great company like mine.”
Laurence Olivier - Number One

“- Big Boy Caprice: Look what you did to your pretty tuxedo.
- Lips Manlis: Big Boy, ain't we pals?
- Big Boy Caprice: No pals in this business, Lips. You taught me that.”
Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice
Paul Sorvino - Lips Manlis

“The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“- Basil: An overhead cable? You're mad.
- Alexis Zorba: Why?
- Basil: That forest doesn't belong to us.
- Alexis Zorba: Well, it doesn't, and then it does.
- Basil: What does that mean?
- Alexis Zorba: It belong to the monastery. The monastery belongs to God, and God belongs to everybody. Do you agree?”
Alan Bates - Basil
Anthony Quinn - Alexis Zorba

“When making a business decision, the only color that matters is green.”
Al Palagonia - Dom Pagnotti

“- Boris Balkan: Our relations have always been strictly commercial, and that's the way I like it. The professional and the personal should be mutually exclusive.
- Dean Corso: Listen, I came here to do some business, not shoot the breeze. If you want to expound your personal philosophies, write another book.”
Frank Langella - Boris Balkan
Johnny Depp - Dean Corso

“- Ray Charles: You're the ones who taught me that making a record is business and find the best business deal that you can. Now seventy-five cents of every dollar and owning my own masters is a pretty damn good deal. Can you match it?
- Ahmet Ertegun: Ray we would love to match it, but we just can't. That's a better deal than Sinatra gets... I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun

“- Martin: I built this company with my two own hands. Just me, that computer and an eight million dollar loan from my father.
- James King: You really did it all on your own.”
Craig T. Nelson - Martin
Will Ferrell - James

“When it comes to my business... I don't like anything that's distracting. So I want you to take the rest of the day off... to be sad... and get back here tomorrow ready to take care of... business! Got it?”
Judy Davis - Marilyn Dean

“What are we supposed to think? A young, eager producer comes up to the house of a top executive for a midnight rendezvous? She's right, Guy, it's not what you think. She's definitely not selling Girl Scout cookies!”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“- Principal Evelyn Doyle: I inherited the business from my late husband.
- Richard Clark: I'm shocked!
- Principal Evelyn Doyle: What? That a woman can run a business?
- Richard Clark: No. That you were ever married.”
Louise Fletcher - Principal Evelyn Doyle
Jon Lovitz - Richard Clark

“- Michael Sullivan: You're protecting him already?
- Frank Nitti: We're protecting our interests, Mike.”
Tom Hanks - Michael Sullivan
Stanley Tucci - Frank Nitti

It's the way things are, it's "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer." They devised a plan to manipulate technology, economics, the media, population control, world religion, to keep things the way they are. And they have continued to meet once a year, every year, since the original meeting.

Michael Shannon - Peter Evans

“- Gene: You made twenty-two million last year. These people have lost their homes, their marriages, the respect of their children.
- Salinger: We did what the market required of us to survive!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary
Craig T. Nelson - Salinger

“Right there, looking into Joey's eyes, it all came back in a rush. Why I do what I do. Defending the defenseless, protecting the disenfranchised corporations that have been abandoned by their very own consumers.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.”
Brent Spiner

“Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.”
Imelda Staunton

“The sole purpose of their meetings is to compete for the highest death tolls and how to compare strategies on how to dupe the American people.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“Killing is my business, and business is good!”
Damon Wayans - Maj. Benson Payne

“- Doug Linus: You sold our stereo? That was worth way more than that stupid retainer!
- Chad Linus: No way! That stereo was never in my mouth! Okay once, but only for a second!”
Kevin P. Farley - Doug Linus
Noah Bastian - Chad Linus