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[I n Bud's new office ]
Marv: Very nice. So what is it, *Mr.* Cocksucker now?
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Gordon Gekko: Lunch is for wimps.
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Bud Fox: I'm tapped out Marv. American Express' got a hit man lookin' for me.
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Gordon Gekko: When I get a hold o f the son of a bitch who leaked this, I'm
gonna tear his eyeb alls out and I'm gonna suck his fucking skull.
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Carl Fox: Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living o ff the buying and
selling of o thers.
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Gordon Gekko: 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 accumulating 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. We make the rules, pa l. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price pe r pape r clip. We pick that rabbit out of
the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a
democracy, a re you buddy? It's the free market. And yo u're a p art of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a
lot to teach you.
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Gordon Gekko: You're walking around b lind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to ge t together in the first
place.
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Bud Fox: 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 transferred from one perception to another.
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Gordon Gekko: Mixed emotions, buddy. Like Larry Wildman going off a c liff in my new Maserati.
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Bud Fox: Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and
reevaluate.
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Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is
what keeps him out of the abyss.
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Lou: The main thing ab out money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do .
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Darien Taylor : When you've had money and lost it, it can be much worse than never having had it at all!
Bud Fox: That is BULLSHIT!
[throws a whiskey bottle destructively; Darien starts to leave ]
Bud Fox: HEY! HEY! You step out that door, and I am *changing the locks*!Share this q uote
Bud Fox: Life a ll comes down to a few moments. This is one o f them.
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Gordon Gekko: [at the Teldar Paper stockholder's meeting ] Well, I appreciate the op portunity you're giving me Mr. Cromwell as the
single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and ge ntlemen we're not here to indulge in fantasy b ut in political
and economic reality. America, America has b ecome a second- rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal de ficit are a t nightmareproportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the
stockholder. The Carnegies , the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial emp ire, made sure of it because it was their money
at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men s itting up here o wn less than three pe rcent of
the co mpany. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-d ollar sala ry? Not in Teldar stock; he o wns less than one pe rcent. You
own the co mpany. That's right, you, the stockholder. And you a re all b eing royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with
their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.
Cromwell: This is an outrage! You're out of line Gekko!
Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 d ifferent vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand
dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do
know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the pap erwork going
back and forth between all these v ice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of theunfittest. 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 p rofit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a
liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, 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 very much.
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Gordon Gekko: The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
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[Bud is just finding out about a meeting concerning Blue Star ]
Roger Barnes : Well, you're only the President of the company. What the hell do you know, anyway?
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[Blue Star has gone from 24 to 16 1/2 in a very short time ]
Gordon Gekko: Fox, where the hell are you? I am losing MILLIONS! You got me into this airline and you sure as hell better get me
out or the only job you'll ever have on the Street is SWEEPING IT! You hear me, Fox?
Bud Fox: You once told me, do n't get emotional about stock. Don't! The bid is 16 1/2 and going d own. As your broker, I advise you
to take it.
Gordon Gekko: Yeah. Well you TAKE IT!
[shouts]
Gordon Gekko: *Right in the ass you fucking scumbag cocksucke r!*
Bud Fox: It's two minutes to closing, G ordon. What do you want to do? Decide .Gordon Gekko: [calms down] Dump it.
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Marv: [Bud has been ignoring him ] What the hell is the matter with you? Things are so b ad out there even the lifers are complaining,
but not you. No. You're pulling in big money. So what's the score huh...
Bud Fox: Hey LOOK! I am SICK and TIRED of playing wet nurse to you all the time! Will you do your own homework, Marv?
Marv: [leaves] What an asshole!
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Gordon Gekko: What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
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Gordon Gekko: I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox.
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Gordon Gekko: I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million
dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing.
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Gordon Gekko: I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is
ever fought.
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Gordon Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog.
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Gordon Gekko: The most va luable co mmodity I know of is information.
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Gordon Gekko: Greed ca ptures the esse nce of the evolutionary spirit.
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Gordon Gekko: I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one.
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Gordon Gekko: You see that building? I bo ught that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, madean $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.
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Bud Fox: Why do you need to wreck this company?
Gordon Gekko: Because it's WRECKABLE, all right? I took another look at it and I changed my mind!
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Gordon Gekko: Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.
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Bud Fox: This is really a nice club, Mr. Gekko.
Gordon Gekko: Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my
kneecaps.
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Gordon Gekko: [meeting alone together in Central Park ] Hiya, Buddy.
Bud Fox: [nods as the both walk up to face one another ] Gordon.
Gordon Gekko: [with a smirk on his face ] Sand b agged me on Bluestar huh? I guess you think you taught the teacher a lesson that
the tail can wag the dog huh? Well let me clue you in, p al. The ice is melting right underneath your feet.
[ punches Bud and grabs him by the coattails ]
Gordon Gekko: Did you think you could've gotten this far this fast with anyone e lse, huh? That you'd be out there dicking someone
like Darien? No. You'd still be co ld ca lling widows and dentists tryin' to sell 'em 20 shares of some dog shit stock. I took you in.
[hits him again]Gordon Gekko: A NOBODY!
[and again]
Gordon Gekko: I opened the doors for you! Showed you how the system works! The value of information! How to *get it*! Fulham
oil! Brant resources! Geodynamics! And this is how you fucking pay me ba ck yo u COCKROACH?
[hits him once again and Bud falls to the ground ]
Gordon Gekko: I GAVE you Darien. I GAVE you your manhood. I gave you EVERYTHING!
[calms down, then takes out his handkerchief and throws it to Bud to clean off the blood ]
Gordon Gekko: You could've been one of the great ones Buddy. I looked at you and saw myself. Why?
Bud Fox: [getting up] I don't know. I guess I realized that I'm just Bud Fox.
[firmly ]
Bud Fox: As much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll *always* be Bud Fox.[tosses back the handkerchief and walks away ]
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Carl Fox: I don't go to bed 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.
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Gordon Gekko: Well you take it, right in the ass you scumbag co cksucker.
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Gordon Gekko: 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.
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Gordon Gekko: It's not always the mos t popular person who ge ts the job done.
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Bud Fox: Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel.
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Bud Fox: Hi, Marv.
Marv: [sarcastically ] Oh, hi. Say, why don't YOU get the hell out of MY office!
Bud Fox: I know I've been a b it of a schmuck lately and I just want to ap ologiz e.
Marv: You've b een a *real* schmuck lately. So go thou and sin no more.
Bud Fox: Let me make it up to you.
[types on computer ]
Bud Fox: Bluestar. Put *all* your clients in it.
Marv: [ pause] Ok, Buddy Buddy. We are back in business on Bluestar.
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Gordon Gekko: You stop sending me information, and you s tart getting me some.
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Carl Fox: Money's only so mething you need in case you don't die tomorrow...
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Gordon Gekko: It's all abo ut bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
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Carl Fox: He's using you, kid. He's got your prick in his back pocket, but you're too blind to see it.
Bud Fox: No. What I see is a jealous o ld machinist who ca n't stand the fact that his son has be come more successful than he has!
Carl Fox: What you see is a guy who never measured a man's success by the size of his WALLET!
Bud Fox: That's beca use you never had the GUTS to go out into the world and s take your own claim![Long Pause]
Carl Fox: Boy, if that's the way yo u feel, I must have done a really lousy job as a father.
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Bud Fox: There's no nobility in poverty.
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Lou Mannheim: Kid, you're on a roll. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it never does.Share this q uote
[after Bud lost $100,000 on a 'dog' stock ]
Gordon Gekko: I guess your Dad isn't on the Boa rd of Directors of *that* compa ny, is he?
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Gordon Gekko: If you're not inside, you're *outside*!
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Gordon Gekko: Jesus, if this guy owned a funeral pa rlor nobody would d ie!
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Bud Fox: About average yield... very attractive.
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Hooker : Mmm...
[while unzipping Bud's pants ]
Bud Fox: Rising profits... strong balance sheet.
Hooker : I'm hot on this stock.
Bud Fox: It's ready to take off. I'd jump all over it if I were you.
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Bud Fox: Having sex with her was like reading the Wall St Journal.Share this q uote
Marv: We're all just one trade away from humility.
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Marv: Sure went down the toilet with that ugly bitch.
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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 do ing it to the poor since the beginning of time. The only difference be tween the
Pyramids and the Empire State Building is the Egyptians didn't allow unions. I know what this guy is all ab out, greed. He don't give a
damn ab out Bluestar or the unions. He's in and out for the buck and he don't take prisoners.
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[Bud just got a promotion ]Lynch: The minute I laid e yes o n you, I knew you had what it took.
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[Bud just got arrested ]
Lynch: The minute I laid eyes on you, I knew you were no good.
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Gordon Gekko: You gonna tell me the difference b etween this guy a nd that guy is luck?
[ points at a bum and businessman ]
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Bud Fox: What's the matter? Did somebody die?
Marv: Yeah...
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Gordon Gekko: I want to know where he goes, what he sees, I want you to fill in the missing p ieces of the puz zle .
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Bud Fox: You know what my dream is? It's to one day be on the other end o f that phone.
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Gordon Gekko: Sir Larry Wildman. Like all Brits, he thinks he was born with a better pot to piss in.
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Gordon Gekko: [awed by the morning light ] I've never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean, at a mome nt like this.
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Darien Taylor : I don't want him to ever know, you understand?Gordon Gekko: Mum's the word.
[after a pause ]
Gordon Gekko: You and I are the same, Darien. We are smart enough not to buy in to the oldest myth running; love. Diction
created by people to keep them from jumping out of windows.
[laughs]
Darien Taylor : You know sometimes I miss you...
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Lou Mannheim: Bud... Bud I like you. Just remember something. Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that
moment man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Bud Fox: I think I understand.
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Lou Mannheim: I don't know where you get your information, but I don't like it.
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Bud Fox: [after Gordon calls back and buys Bluestar ]
[Loudly ]
Bud Fox: Yeah! Woooo! I just bagged the e lephant!
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Realtor : Everybody tells you they hate the upper East Side. They wanna live on the West Side. But believe me, when it's resale
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Gordon Gekko: That's the one thing you have to remember about WASPs: they love animals and hate people.
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Investment Banker : Your boy rea lly did his homework, Fox. And you'll have the shortest executive career since that Pope that got
poisoned.
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Bud Fox: Did mom give you fish for dinner?
Carl Fox: Spaghetti! Your mother still makes lousy spaghetti.
Bud Fox: It's called "pasta" now, dad. "Spaghetti" is out of date.
Carl Fox: So am I.
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[first lines ]
Businesswoman #1: [a crowd of businessmen stampede into an elevator ] Excuse me.
Businessman #1: Easy!
Businesswoman #2: Excuse me!
Businessman #2: Thank you.
Businesswomen #3: Sorry!
Businessman #3: Easy!
Businessman #4 : Easy!Share this q uote
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Carl Fox: [Bud is being dropped off in front of the courthouse ] We'll pa rk the car and catch up with you.
Bud Fox: Alright.
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