Top 25 Gordon Gekko Quotes From Wall Street
25. Did you think you could've gotten this far this fast with anyone else, huh?...Naw... you'd still be cold calling widows and dentists tryin' to sell 'em 20 shares of some dog shit stock. I took you in...a NOBODY! I opened the doors for you... showed you how the system works... the value of information... how to get it! Fulham oil, Brant resources, geodynamics and this is how you fucking pay me back, you COCKROACH!
24. You stop sending me information, and you start getting me some.
23. If you're not inside, you're outside!
22. Ollie! I want every orafice in his fucking body flowing red!
21. Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.
20. Most of these Ivy league, MBA types aren’t worth dog-shit.
19. Are you going to tell me the difference between this guy and that guy is luck?
18. I loved it at 40, it's an insult at 50... they're analysts, they don't know preferred stock from livestock.
17. Never get emotional about stock, it clouds your judgment.
16. Money never sleeps.
15. I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.
14. If it looks as good as on paper we're in the kill zone, pal, better lock and load. Lunch? Aw, you gotta be kidding, lunch is for whimps.
13. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.
12. He’s right, I had to sell; the key to the game is your capital reserve, if you haven’t got it, you can’t piss in the tall weeds with the big dogs.
11. You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place… It's not a question of enough,
pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.
10. Mixed emotions, pal. Like seeing Larry Wildman going off a cliff, in my new Maserati.
9. Sure, if something's worth doing, it's worth doing for money.
8. I'm talking liquid. Enough money to have your own jet. Enough money not to waste time. Fifty, one hundred million dollars. A player, or nothing.
7. This is your wake-up call, pal. Go to work.
6. Rip their fucking hearts out! Throw them in your garbage compactor!
5. I know of no more valuable commodity than information.
4. I look at a hundred deals a day. I choose one.
3. Did he respond to the tender offer? What? What the hell’s Cromwell doing giving a lecture tour when he’s losing 30 million a quarter? He must be lecturing about how to lose money. This turkey is totally brain dead! Jesus, if this guy owned a funeral parlor nobody would die! Alright, Christmas is over, and business is business – you keep on buying, dilute the son-of-a-bitch!
2. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you Buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you.
1. The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
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Also, here is the famous "Greed is good" speech
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