Quotes about Business

Anthony P. Kirby: Say, Tony, do you realize there won't be a bullet, gun or cannon made in this country without us?
Tony Kirby: Dad, now don't tell me you've forgotten the sling shot market.

- James Stewart (as Tony Kirby) in You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Tony Kirby: Well, he's married, wife just had a baby, didn't think it was fair to gamble with the future. Anyway that's his excuse for lack of courage. I know, say it -- what's my excuse? Well, the Kirbys have been bankers for 9,000 years or something, and that line just can't be broken -- and that's been pounded into my head until I had softening in the brain. That's my excuse.

- James Stewart (as Tony Kirby) in You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Grandpa Vanderhoff: Stop worrying. If I know my granddaughter, she isn't going to marry Tony without your blessing. So the only thing you've got to be concerned about is this big deal of yours. So what if it does fall through? What if all your deals fall through? Might be a good thing for you.

- Lionel Barrymore (as Martin Vanderhof) in You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Peter Keating: You can't hope to survive unless you learn how to compromise. Now, watch me! In just a few short years I'll shoot to the top of the architectural profession because I'm going to give the public what it wants.

- Kent Smith (as Peter Keating) in The Fountainhead (1949)

Ellsworth Toohey: Artistic value is achieved collectively by each man subordinating himself to the standards of the majority.

- Robert Douglas (as Ellsworth M. Toohey) in The Fountainhead (1949)

Gail Wynand: I give the public what it wants - including your column, Mr. Toohey!

- Raymond Massey (as Gail Wynand) in The Fountainhead (1949)

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

Captain Renault: [aloud] Everybody out at once!

- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

John Minify: I've asked Phil to do a piece on anti-Semitism.
Kathy Lacey: Am I going to get a credit line?
John Minify: You? Why?
Kathy Lacey: Well, don't you remember last winter when that Jewish schoolteacher resigned, and I...
John Minify: Oh, yes. Well, I knew somebody would be asking me for a credit line. I'm always stealing ideas without realizing it.
Kathy Lacey: That's what makes your magazine so original.

- Dorothy McGuire (as Kathy Lacy) in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Prince Feisal: Well, General, I will leave you. Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make upon my people and their weakness, and the need to keep them weak in the British interest... and the French interest too, of course. We must not forget the French now...
General Allenby: [indignantly] I've told you, sir, no such treaty exists.
Prince Feisal: Yes, General, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly. I know this treaty does exist.
T.E. Lawrence: Treaty, sir?
Prince Feisal: He does it better than you, General. But then, of course, he is almost an Arab.

- Alec Guinness (as Prince Feisal) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Ellsworth Toohey: I play the stock market of the spirit and I sell short

- Robert Douglas (as Ellsworth M. Toohey) in The Fountainhead (1949)