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 It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

View Quote 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. Like magic.

View Quote This painting here? I bought it ten years ago for sixty thousand dollars, I could sell it today for six hundred. The illusion has become real, and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it. Capitalism at its finest.

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 We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat when everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did 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 When I get a hold of the son of a bitch who leaked this, I am going to tear his eyeballs out and suck his ****ing skull.

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

View Quote Where the hell are you? I am losing MILLIONS! You got me into this company and sure as hell better get me out or the only job you'll have on the Street is SWEEPING IT! You hear me, Fox?

View Quote I'm tapped out Marv. American Express got a hit man lookin' for me.

View Quote Having sex with her was like reading the Wall Street Journal.

View Quote You step out that door, and I'm changing the locks.

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

View Quote I don't know. I guess I realized that I'm just Bud Fox... and as much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll always be Bud Fox.

View Quote I gotta live in Manhattan to be a player. There's no nobility in poverty anymore.