Work Quotes

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"The only way to make money is to take it."
Tony Montana
T
"I work hard for everything I got."
Tony Montana
T
"I believe in hard work and nothing else."
Tony Montana
S
"It's not personal, it's just business."
Sonny Corleone
S
"The business of America is business."
Sonny Corleone
S
"A real man takes care of his business."
Sonny Corleone
T
"The narrator is a slave to the things he owns."
The Narrator
T
"You're trapped in an office building."
The Narrator
T
"A business is not about friendship, it's about profit."
Tom Hagen
T
"A lawyer without clients is just a man with expensive education."
Tom Hagen
T
"A lawyer is only as good as his last case."
Tom Hagen
V
"It's not personal, it's strictly business."
Vito Corleone
V
"A man must provide for his family, by any means necessary."
Vito Corleone
M
"It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business."
Michael Corleone
M
"My father didn't want to get into the drug business."
Michael Corleone
M
"This is the business I chose."
Michael Corleone
M
"The only loyalty is to the business."
Michael Corleone
T
"I work nights. It's better for me."
Travis Bickle
T
"Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the come off the back seat. Some nights I clean it off the walls."
Travis Bickle
T
"Taxi driver, that's what I am. Driving through the city."
Travis Bickle
T
"It's like an occupation, you know?"
Travis Bickle
S
"It's not personal, it's strictly business."
Sonny Corleone
S
"I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman."
Sonny Corleone
S
"This is the business we've chosen."
Sonny Corleone
T
"In the end, all we got is what we build with our own hands."
Tony Montana
T
"I'm a businessman. I do business."
Tony Montana
T
"You want to know the secret of my success? I work harder than everybody else."
Tony Montana
T
"Never discuss business at the dinner table."
Tom Hagen
T
"A good lawyer is like a good doctor—he knows when to prescribe and when to heal."
Tom Hagen
T
"Business is personal, and personal is business."
Tom Hagen