Monopoly: Business at the End of its Journey

Image via WikipediaWhat we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. – Samuel Goldwyn




Hitch your wagon to a star; keep your nose to the grindstone; put your shoulder to the wheel; keep an ear to the ground; and watch the handwriting on the wall. – Herbert V. Prochnow



Business only contributes fully to society if it is efficient, successful, profitable and socially responsible. – Lord Sieff



Expenditures rise to meet income. – C. Northcote Parkinson



Monopoly is business at the end of its journey. – Henry Demarest Lloyd



Most of the trouble with most people in America who become successful is that they can really and truly get by on bullshit alone. They can survive on it. – Sammy Davis Jr.



The business of everybody is the business of nobody. – Thomas MaCaulay

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Samuel Goldwyn (1884-1974) was the leading independent film producer for 35 years.

“Goldwynisms”

I was very pleasantly disappointed.

I don’t care if it doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it.

1810? When was that?

You’re from Iowa? Out here we pronounce it Ohio.

First you have a story, then a good treatment, and next a first-rate director. After that, you hire a competent cast and even then you have only the mucus of a good picture.

Plenty of water’s passed between us.

It rolls off my back like a duck.

Color television! Bah, I won’t believe it until I see it in black and white.

Isn’t there a statue of limitation?

It’s no use. You’ve got to take the bull between the teeth.

Darkly Comical Hollywood Quotes

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Samuel Goldwyn (1884-1974) was the leading independent film producer for 35 years.

“Goldwynisms”

Send in two cups of demi-tasses

No thanks. Coffee isn’t my cup of tea.

Excuse me, I’m going out for some tea and trumpets.

Eat your vichyssoise before it gets cold.

All the lies they tell about me are true.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he’d turn over in his grave.

When it comes to ruining a painting, he’s an artist.

It’s more than magnificent- It’s mediocre.

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Darkly Comical Hollywood Quotes

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Samuel Goldwyn (1884-1974) was the leading independent film producer for 35 years.

“Goldwynisms”

Let’s have some new cliches.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

There is not enough sarcasm in the musical score.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

We put the money in the escarole.

I want this to be fifty-fifty like I said. But I want you to see that I get the best part of it.

I know you’re getting nothing, but I won’t pay you a cent more.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

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Darkly Comical Hollywood Quotes

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Samuel Goldwyn (1884-1974) was the leading independent film producer for 35 years.

“Goldwynisms”

Ah, to be immortal for a day!

Actors think with their hearts. That’s why so many of them die broke.

I’m having more trouble with these stars than Mussolini with Utopia.

She’s pregnant? You know what you did? You didn’t just screw her – you screwed me.

The most important thing in acting is honesty; once you learn to fake that, you’re in!

You’re a dunce who lived by the sweat of his frau. (to an actor married to a German woman)

Bill, you and I should start doing each other favors. Let’s start by you doing me one.

I apologize for calling you a crook, Doug. I can’t prove it.

I’ll cable Hitler and ask him to shoot around you. (to David Niven when he enlisted)

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Darkly Comical Hollywood Quotes


Samuel Goldwyn (1884-1974) was the leading independent film producer for 35 years.

“Goldwynisms”

Anyone who sees a psychiatrist should have his head examined.

I tell you, Marion, you just don’t realize what life is all about until you’ve found yourself lying on the brink of a great abscess!

If I did that I would be sticking my head in a moose.

I’ve been laid up with intentional flu.

It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and nobody’s going to eat me.

I love the ground I walk on.

You may include me out.

I’ll give you a definite maybe.