“Wall Street” quotes
(1987)
Oliver Stone
directed this movie
in 1987
Title Wall Street
Year 1987
Director Oliver Stone
Genre Drama, Crime
Year 1987
Director Oliver Stone
Genre Drama, Crime
Plot – Bud works as a broker for a company at Wall Street. He's a real New York yuppie and is under the protection of Gekko, an unscrupulous businessman who dominates the market and often ruins small investors. When Gekko attacks his father's company, the guy changes his opinion about him.
All actors – Charlie Sheen, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Chuck Pfeiffer, John C. McGinley, Hal Holbrook, James Karen, Leslie Lyles, Michael Douglas, Faith Geer, Frank Adonis, John Capodice, Martin Sheen, Suzen Murakoshi, Dani Klein, François Giroday, Josh Mostel, Ann Talman, Lisa Zebro, Rocco Ancarola, Martin Sherman, Monique van Vooren, Derek Keir, Andrea Thompson, Lauren Tom, George Blumenthal, Terence Stamp, George Vlachos, Liliane Montevecchi, Ronald von Klaussen, Michael O'Donoghue, Pirie MacDonald, Thomas Anderson, Sean Young, Cecilia Peck, Paul Guilfoyle, Annie McEnroe, Daryl Hannah, Jack Pruett, Ronald Yamamoto, James Spader, Yanni Sfinias, Grant Shaud, Carol Schneider, Saul Rubinek, Sean Stone, Astrid De Richemonte, Adelle Lutz, Sylvia Miles, Christopher Burge, Richard Feigen, James Rosenquist, John Galateo, Richard Dysart, Marlena Bielinska, William G. Knight, Jean De Baer, Bruce Daniel Diker, Jeff Beck, Diego Del Vayo, Millie Perkins, Pat Skipper, John Deyle, Michael A. Raymond, Eugene Dumaresq, Lefty Lewis, Mike Rutigliano, Heather Evans, Ken Lipper, Donnie Kehr, Elise Richmond, David Logan, Paul Kawecki, Dickson Shaw, Patrick Weathers, Jill Dalton, Allan Salkin, Oliver Stone, Michael C. Mahon, Jeff Rector, Pamela Riley, Jon Wool, James Bulleit, Alexandra Neil, Sam Ingraffia, Anna Levine, Byron Utley, , J. Adam Glover, David Hummel, Erville Light, Kevin Michael Moran, Chris Nelson Norris, Bill Phillips, Helen Proimos, Ron Turek
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“It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.”
“This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence kid.”
“- Bud Fox: So tell me, Gordon: when does it all end, huh? How many yachts can you water-ski behind? How much is enough?
- Gordon Gekko: 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, uh, transferred from one perception to another. Like magic.”- Carl Fox: "There came into Egypt a Pharaoh who did not know".
- Gordon Gekko: I beg your pardon, is that a proverb?
- Carl Fox: No, a prophecy. The rich have been doing it to the poor since the beginning of time. The only difference between the Pyramids and the Empire State Building is the Egyptians didn't allow unions. I know what this guy is... (continue)(continue reading)“Having sex with her was like reading the Wall St. Journal.”
“The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.”
“It's not always the most popular person who gets the job done.”
“Lunch is for wimps.”
“You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it.”
“The minute I laid eyes on you, I knew you had what it took.”
“- Bud Fox: If these people lose their jobs, they got nowhere to go! My father has worked there for 24 years! I gave him my word.
- Gordon Gekko: It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation... Hey, Buddy, you're still gonna be president, all right? And when the time comes, you're gonna parachute out, a rich man. With the money you're...” (continue)(continue reading)“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.”
“You gonna tell me the difference between this guy and that guy is luck?”
“The minute I laid eyes on you, I knew you were no good.”
“What's worth doing is worth doing for money.”
“The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a...” (continue)(continue reading)
“There's no nobility in poverty.”
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