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 Save the cheap salesman talk, will ya, it's obvious.

View Quote Sell it all. What the hell, so we only make ten million.

View Quote Showdowns bore me, Larry. Nobody wins. You can have the company. In fact, it's gonna be fun watching you and your giant ego try and make a horse race out of it.

View Quote So the falcon's heard the falconer, huh?

View Quote Stick to the fundamentals. That's how IBM and Hilton were built. Good things, sometimes, take time.

View Quote Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Thank you for telling me what I already know.

View Quote That's the thing you gotta remember about WASPs - they love animals, they can't stand people.

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

View Quote The most valuable commodity I know of, is information

View Quote 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 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. Note: ranked #57 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote The public's out there throwin' darts at a board, sport. I don't throw darts at a board - I bet on sure things.

View Quote The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest ac****ulating to widows and idiot sons; And what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.

View Quote This is the kid. Calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. Oughta be a picture of you in the dictionary under 'Persistence', kid.