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 You work hard? I'll bet you stayed up all night analyzing that dogshit stock you gave me, huh? where'd it get you? My father, he worked like an elephant pushing electrical supplies and he dropped dead at 49 with a heart attack and tax bills.

View Quote I loved it at 40, it's an insult at 50. They're analysts, they don't know preferred stock from livestock, alright? When it hits south, we raise the sperm count on the deal.

View Quote Blow 'em away, Ollie. Rip their ****ing throats out. Stuff 'em in your garbage compactor.

View Quote I could break you, mate, in two pieces over my knees. You know it, I know it. I could buy you six times over. I could dump the stock just to burn your arse. But i happen to want the company, and I want your block of shares.

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 Alright Bud Fox, I want you to buy 20,000 shares of Bluestar, at 15 1/8, 3/8 tops. Don't screw it up, sport. Think you can handle that?

View Quote Come on pal, tell me something I don't know, it's my birthday. Surprise me.

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

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

View Quote I don't go to sleep with no whore and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it.

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 It's not bad for a quant, but that's a dog with different fleas.

View Quote And if you need a friend, get a dog. It's trench warfare out there pal.

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

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.