Wall Street quotes

83 total quotes

Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen)
Carl Fox (Martin Sheen)
Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)
Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook)

Marv (John C. McGinley)
Panos Marsala (Yanni Sfinias)
Roger Barnes (James Spader)
Sir Larry Wildman (Terence Stamp)

View Quote Jesus you can't make a buck in this market, the country's goin' to hell faster than when that son of a bitch Roosevelt was in charge. Too much cheap money sloshing around the world. The worst mistake we ever made was letting Nixon get off the gold standard.

View Quote Kid, you're on a roll. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it never does.

View Quote Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Lunch? Aw, You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.

View Quote Man looks into the Abyss, and there's nothin' staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character, and that's what keeps him out of the Abyss.

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

View Quote Money never sleeps, pal. Just made 800,000 Hong Kong Gold, it's been wired to ya. Play with it. You done good, but you gotta keep doing good. I Showed you how the game works, now school's out.

View Quote Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow...

View Quote Most of these Harvard MBA types - they don't add up to dogshit. Give me guys that are poor, smart, hungry - and no feelings. You win a few, you lose a few, but you keep on fighting.

View Quote No, no, no, no, you don't understand. I wanna be surprised. Astonish me pal. New Info - I don't care where, or how you get it - just get it.

View Quote 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 part of it. Yeah, you got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I still got a lot to teach you.

View Quote Now, listen, Jerry, I'm looking for negative control. Okay? No more than 30, 35 percent. Just enough to block anybody else's merger plans and find out from the inside if the books are cooked. If it looks as good as on paper, we're in the kill zone, pal. Lock and load.

View Quote Oh, this is very nice. This is very nice. So what’s it, *Mr.* **** now?

View Quote Relax pal, no one's gonna blow the whistle on ya. Is that legal? You should put that in my account.