Business quotes

“Don't confuse business with pleasure.”
Dustin Hoffman - Teach

“- Oskar Schindler: In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.
- Emilie Schindler: Luck?
- Oskar Schindler: War.”
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler
Caroline Goodall - Emilie Schindler

- Paul Avery: What's your angle, here? This is good business for everyone but you.
- Robert Graysmith: What do you mean, "angle"?.
Robert Downey Jr. - Paul Avery
Jake Gyllenhaal - Robert Graysmith

“Few people on this planet knows what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organization that kills 1200 people a day. The face of cigarettes, the Colonel Sanders of nicotine.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“- Charley: The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman and you don't know that.
- William 'Willy' Loman: Well, I've always tried to think otherwise, I guess. I always felt - that if a man was impressive, and well liked, that nothing...
- Charley: Why must everybody like you? Who liked...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Durning - Charley
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“- Mallory Pike: We're rich!
- Jessi Ramsey: We can almost buy a car!
- Mallory Pike: In five years, we can drive it!
- Kristy Thomas: Hey, you guys, if we raise enough money, we can have our own office!
- Stacey: That's a great idea!”

Stacy Linn Ramsower - Mallory Pike
Zelda Harris - Jessi Ramsey
Schuyler Fisk - Kristy Thomas
Bre Blair - Stacey McGill

“- Ben Campbell: Hey, I let you down, all right. I get it.
- Micky Rosa: Excuse me? You let me down? I don't care! Let me make one thing clear to you, I am not your father! You are not my friend. This is a business. You were only good to me as the money you make, and, right now it's not worth a hell of a whole lot!”
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“- Gretchen: What was the purpose of the trip?
- Saverin: Well, as CFO, I had set up some meetings with potential advertisers.
- Gretchen: Who paid for the trip?
- Saverin: It was paid for out of the thousand dollar account I had set up a few months earlier.
- Gretchen: At this point, your thousand dollars was the only money that had been put...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denise Grayson - Gretchen
Andrew Garfield - Eduardo Saverin

“Sometimes business is more important than family.”
Rade Serbedzija - Nikita Sokoloff

“- R.K. Maroon: How much do you know about show business, Mr. Valiant?
- Eddie Valiant: Only that there is no business like it, no business I know.
- R.K. Maroon: Yeah. And there's no business more expensive. I'm 25 grand over budget on the latest Baby Herman cartoon. You've seen the rabbit blowing his lines. He can't keep his mind on his job....” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Tilvern - R.K. Maroon
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Valiant

“- Deacon 'Deke' Kaye: We need to sell that shit on eBay.
- Jim Street: I only have one.
- Deacon 'Deke' Kaye: We'll split the profits fifty-fifty, corner the market. Break 'em down like a shotgun, The Polish Penetrator!”

LL Cool J - Deacon 'Deke' Kaye
Colin Farrell - Jim Street

“I’m a businessman, make me an offer.”
DMX - Anthony Fait

“Teen smoking, our bread and butter, is falling like a shit from heaven! We don't sell Tic Tacs for Christ's sake. We sell cigarettes. And they're cool and available and addictive. The job is almost done for us!”
J. K. Simmons - BR

“Rule number one: never change the deal.”
Jason Statham - Frank Martin

“Practically every major corporation hides its money offshore. And that is good news for us, because we are the the shore.”
Johnny Depp - Kemp

“Idealism kills every deal.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“Conditions have changed since you left, Don Diego. Your father resigned. Age, you know! Since then, the peons have become more industrious. As to the caballeros. They're encouraged to think of their own affairs. We take care of the government!”
Basil Rathbone - Capt. Esteban Pasquale

“If I've learned one thing, it's that business is a lot like sex: getting in is easy, pulling out is hard.”
Luke Wilson - Jack Harris

- Corky: So, Caesar works for the Mafia?
- Violet: Strange, nobody calls it that anymore. Caesar calls it "the Business".
Gina Gershon - Corky
Jennifer Tilly - Violet

“It's wrong to think we could plan everything, as though it were a business trip. I don't believe that anymore. Things just happen.”
William Hurt - Macon

“People are gonna drink! You know that, I know that, we all know that, and all I do is act on that. And all this talk of bootlegging... what is bootlegging? On a boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality. I'm a businessman!”

Robert De Niro - Al Capone

“- Walt Henderson: We live in the suburbs, but I've got my business in town.
- Travis Henderson: Oh yeah? What's your business?
- Walt Henderson: I make billboard signs for advertising.
- Travis Henderson: Oh yeah? So you're the one who makes those signs, I love those. Some of them are beautiful.
- Walt Henderson: I'm not the only one who makes...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dean Stockwell - Walt Henderson
Harry Dean Stanton - Travis Henderson

“- Egbert Sousé: Hello, Doc. How are ya? How's business?
- Dr. Stall: Fair, fair. I don't suppose we'll ever get another whooping cough epidemic again.”
W.C. Fields - Egbert Sousé
Harlan Briggs - Dr. Stall

“- Frank: What do these things want?
- Gilbert: They're free-enterprisers. The earth is just another developing planet. Their third world.”
Keith David - Frank
Peter Jason - Gilbert

“It says here the retail industry does 50% of its business between December 1st and December 25th. That's half a year's business in one month's time. It seems to me, an intelligent country would legislate a second such gift giving holiday. Create, say, a Christmas 2, late May, early June, to further stimulate growth.”
Danny Trejo - Jumpy