Head Office (1985)

Ron James: Mark Rabinovich

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Quotes 

• [at a bar] 

  Jack Issel : Max, I came as soon as you called. What happened?

  Max Landsberger : [refering to Rabinovich]  They fired him this morning.

  Mark Rabinovich : [drunk]  I'll kill myself! My whole life, my career, my future was at INC. I know, I'll shoot my brains out. Make it easier. No problem for anybody just... bang!

  Max Landsberger : Apparently, a letter with his card enclosed was dropped off yesterday afternoon at the office of a major Saudi oil company that we do a lot of business with. It said that INC wouldn't boycott the Israelis and that the Saudis could go screw themselves.

  Jack Issel : What?

  Max Landsberger : Well, the shiek freaked out and Dantley had to kiss a whole lot of Saudi ass to cool him off and they insisted that Rabinovich be fired.

  Jack Issel : Who the hell would have put Rabinovich's card...

  Max Landsberger : That's no longer an issue, Jack. Don't get involved with something that doesn't concern you if you want to survive here at INC.

• Bob Nixon : You never, *never* hold your glasses together with a piece of tape and a paper clip, Mister Reubenstein!

  Mark Rabinovich : It's Rabinovich.

• Jack Issel : Look at your commitment. I went through college and business school with someone else's notes and a Xerox machine. I xeroxed and cheated my way through life, Rabinovich. "Do the minimum, keep your old man off your back, take the glorious path of least resistance." That's me.

  Mark Rabinovich : Sounds all right if you can pull it off.

  Jack Issel : It scares the shit out of me to think that I'm going to be an executive here at 50.

  Mark Rabinovich : It scares the shit out of me to think I won't be an executive here at 50.