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 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 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.

View Quote 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.

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

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

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

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

View Quote 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!

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 We got a stockbroker who wants to run an airline.

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

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 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.