Quotes from the Movie Wall Street

I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox. Yeah, rich enough, you can afford a girl like Darien. This is your wake-up call, pal. Go to work.

Gordon Gekko

We're smart enough not to buy into the oldest myth running - Love. Fiction created by people to keep them from jumping out of windows.

Gordon Gekko

I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me, Mr. Cromwell, as the single largest shareholder of Teldar Paper, to speak.

Gordon Gekko

The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men who built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake.

Gordon Gekko

Well, in my book, you either do it right, or you get eliminated.

Gordon Gekko

I am not a destroyer of companies, I am a liberator of them.

Gordon Gekko

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind, and greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you.

Gordon Gekko

Mixed emotions, Buddy. Like, Larry Wildman going off a cliff, in my new Maserati.

Gordon Gekko

You tell those spineless assholes we'll self-insure if they don't write it. I can't believe you can fire half the management, nothing changes!

Gordon Gekko

Look I.. I have no illusions about winning a popularity contest, with any of you. I got roasted the other night - friend of mine asked, "Why are we honoring this man, have we run out of human beings?" I mean it's not always the popular guy who gets the job done.

Gordon Gekko

We got a stockbroker who wants to run an airline.

Gordon Gekko

I'm up to my ass with more nuts than a fruitcake.

Gordon Gekko

So the falcon's heard the falconer, huh?

Gordon Gekko

Sure now what's worth doing, is worth doing for money. If it's a bad bargain, nobody gains, and if we do this deal, everybody gains.

Gordon Gekko

Well you were walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Gordon Gekko