Business quotes

“Your orgasm is our business.”

Klaus Kinski - Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot

“I'm in the picture business.”
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Mannix

“I'm not in the construction business for my health.”
M. Emmet Walsh - C.P. 'Woody' Woodward

“I don't know what it takes! I'm new in the fuck you business.”
Brad Pitt - Jerry Welbach

“What right do they have, of cutting out the suppliers? Pushing out all the middlemen. Buying direct from the manufacturer. Sony this. Toshiba that. All them Chinks putting Americans out of work. That's the way it is now. You can't find the heart of anything to stick the knife.”
Clarence Williams III - Bumpy Johnson:

“- Judge Doom: You see, Mr. Valiant, the successful conclusion of this case draws the curtain on my career as a jurist in Toontown. I'm retiring, taking a new role in the private sector.
- Eddie Valiant: That wouldn't be Cloverleaf Industries, by any chance?
- Judge Doom: You're looking at the sole stockholder.”
Chris Lloyd - Judge Doom
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Valiant

“A man who no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India company.”
Stephen Fry - The Guide

My mother, who got me into this business, always told me: "Make them beg for more and then don't give it to them". But I'm not my mother!

Cynthia Gibb - Gypsy Rose Lee

“- Soda Customer: Hi, can I get a medium 7-Up?
- Enid: Medium? Why sir, do you not know that for a mere 25 cents more you can purchase a large beverage? And you know, I'm only telling because we're such good friends, medium is really only for suckers who don't know the concept of value.”
Brian Jacobs - Soda Customer
Thora Birch - Enid

“- Jack: No time for regrets, Elvis. We were the best fathers we could be under the circumstances.
- Elvis Presley: Yeah, I guess, no time for regrets. We got business to take care of.”
Ossie Davis - Jack
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley

“We were a couple of kids fresh out of business school, with more energy than sense, and a crazyidea.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“- John Gage: That's naive, Diana. I buy people every day.
- Diana Murphy: In business, maybe, but you can't buy people not when real emotions are involved.
- John Gage: So you're saying you can't buy love? That's a bit of a cliché don't you think?
- Diana Murphy: It's absolutely true.”

Robert Redford - John Gage
Demi Moore - Diana Murphy

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
Woody Allen

“You should also know that I never fucked a customer out of his front money. I've been coming to this gym three or four times a week for five years. I'm an easy man to find. My reputation speaks for itself. The fact is that if you can't come up with the front money you're not for real.”
Willem Dafoe - Eric Masters

“I told you you had no idea what you were getting yourself into. If you'd stayed out of my business, your wife would still be alive. Mira, cabrón... Your arrogance killed her, not me.”

Geno Silva - Memo Lucero

“You give away free hot dogs and put up an inflatable gorilla, shit's gonna go down.”
Jeremy Piven - Don Ready

“- Gil Renard: My father started this business.
- Garrity: Look, perfection and principles, they don't belong in business. Not now or then. As a friend of your father's...
- Gil Renard: As a friend of my father - Keep your mouth shut. You know nothing about my father.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Dan Butler - Garrity

“- Mac MacIntyre: Where's the door here?
- Gordon Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
- Mac MacIntyre: How do you do business with a man who has no door?
- Victor: The ethics are just the same.”
Peter Riegert - Mac
Denis Lawson - Urquhart

“Very exciting - being transferred from the business world into the world of art.”
Merle Oberon - Jill Baker

“He's in the Jewish Mafia. It's probably more like a club than an organization.”
Sam Rockwell - Sam

“All right, look, Ben. I'm not gonna lie to you. You're good, you're very, very good. But you did exactly what I told you not to. You got emotional and then you got stupid. Now you tell me why in the world I'd ever get back in business with you.”
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa

“- Cat: Listen to me. I'm sure you can appreciate somethin'. We got a business situationhere. These independents get too big, that comes out of our end.
- Charlie Smith: So, what, you just fuckin' kill 'em?
- Cat: We take care of business. That's all we do. We take care of business.
- Charlie Smith: You see this fuckin' line? This line right...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harvey Keitel - Cat
Jack Nicholson - Charlie Smith

- Duane Duke: Business slow?
- Norman Bates: Well, you're my first customer of the day. Or did you just stop in for directions to the Interstate? Well, it's the next...
- Duane Duke: No, actually, I was interested in that "Help Wanted" sign in the window.
Jeff Fahey - Duane
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“Looking back the casino was the most legitimate business I had running, I looked my customers in the eye and I provided a service they wanted, now I don't even look my customers in the eye and I push them something they never asked for.”

Giovanni Ribisi - Seth Davis

“If I'm not the best manager in the business, I'll eat a garage mechanic's shirt!”
Walter Abel - Danny Reed