J. B. Biggley Quotes in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

J. B. Biggley: I know blood is thicker than water, but Bud Frump is thicker than anything.

Gertrude Biggley: What's nepotism?

J. B. Biggley: That's when your nephew's a damn poop!

J. B. Biggley: I like the way you thinch, Fink.

[Long pause]

J. Pierpont Finch: That's "think, Finch."

J. B. Biggley: I realize that I'm the president of this company, the man that's responsible for everything that goes on here. So, I want to state, right now, that anything that happened is not my fault.

J. Pierpont Finch: Just remember, Wally, we're all brothers.

J. B. Biggley: Some of us are uncles.

Miss Jones: Your wife is on line 2, Mr. Biggley.

J. B. Biggley: Tell her I'm busy, tell her I'm in a meeting, tell her I'm out, damnit, put her on!

J. B. Biggley: Do you know who I am?

J. Pierpont Finch: No, sir.

J. B. Biggley: I'm J. B. Biggley, the President of this company, that's who I am. In fact, that's who the hell I am.

Mr. Twimble: You never told me you hired your nephew.

J. B. Biggley: I never showed him any favoritism; in fact, I hate him.

Mr. Twimble: But you love his ideas.

J. B. Biggley: No. When he first told me the idea, told him it was a lousy idea. When Finch brought it to me, I still said it was a lousy idea. In fact, I told Finch it was a lousy idea.

Mr. Twimble: Why did you buy it?

J. B. Biggley: Seemed like a good idea.

J. B. Biggley: Wally, who's going to be the new chairman of the board, as if I didn't know?

Bud Frump: I'll kill myself!

Mr. Twimble: [as Wally Womper] Ponty, it's your baby now.