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Lou: The main thing ab out money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do .
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Darien Taylor : When you've had money and lost it, it can be much worse than never having had it at all!
Bud Fox: That is BULLSHIT!
[throws a whiskey bottle destructively; Darien starts to leave ]
Bud Fox: HEY! HEY! You step out that door, and I am *changing the locks*!Share this q uote
Bud Fox: Life a ll comes down to a few moments. This is one o f them.
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Gordon Gekko: [at the Teldar Paper stockholder's meeting ] Well, I appreciate the op portunity you're giving me Mr. Cromwell as the
single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and ge ntlemen we're not here to indulge in fantasy b ut in political
and economic reality. America, America has b ecome a second- rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal de ficit are a t nightmareproportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the
stockholder. The Carnegies , the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial emp ire, made sure of it because it was their money
at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men s itting up here o wn less than three pe rcent of
the co mpany. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-d ollar sala ry? Not in Teldar stock; he o wns less than one pe rcent. You
own the co mpany. That's right, you, the stockholder. And you a re all b eing royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with
their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.
Cromwell: This is an outrage! You're out of line Gekko!
Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 d ifferent vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand
dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do
know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the pap erwork going
back and forth between all these v ice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of theunfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were
2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax p rofit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a
liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, 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 its 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 very much.
Gordon Gekko: I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million
dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing.
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Gordon Gekko: 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.
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Gordon Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog.
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Gordon Gekko: The most va luable co mmodity I know of is information.
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Gordon Gekko: Greed ca ptures the esse nce of the evolutionary spirit.
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Gordon Gekko: I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one.
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Gordon Gekko: You see that building? I bo ught that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, madean $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.
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Bud Fox: Why do you need to wreck this company?
Gordon Gekko: Because it's WRECKABLE, all right? I took another look at it and I changed my mind!