42 Quotes from the legendary Gordon Gekko.

1. Gordon Gekko 42.0
42 Must-read Quotes by Gordon Gekko.

3. On Beginnings

4. 1.0
I bought that building ten years ago. My first real
estate deal. Sold it 2 years later, made an 800,000
dollar 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.

5. 2.0
Every battle is won before it's ever fought. Think
about it.

6. On Greed

7. 3.0
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is
right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through
and captures the essence of evolutionary spirit.
Greed in all its forms, greed for life, for money, for
love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of
mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will
save …that other malfunctioning corporation
called the USA.

8. 4.0
Someone reminded me I once said "Greed is
good". Now it seems it's legal. Because everyone
is drinking the same Kool Aid.

9. On the Animal within the rest of us

10. 5.0
Jesus Christ...if this guy owned a funeral parlor,
no one would die! This turkey is totally brain-dead!

11. 6.0
You ever wonder why fund managers can't beat
the S&P 500? Because they're sheep, and sheep
get slaughtered.

12. 7.0
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs?
They get slaughtered.

13. On Love & Friendship

14. 8.0
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.

15. 9.0
And if you need a friend, get a dog. It's trench
warfare out there pal.

16. On Information

17. 10.0
Stop sending me information, and start getting
me some.

18. 11.0
I wanna be surprised. Astonish me pal. New
Info - I don't care where, or how you get it - just
get it.

19. 12.0
The most valuable commodity I know of, is
information

20. 13.0
Tell me something I don't know, it's my birthday.
Surprise me.

21. 14.0
The mother of all evil is speculation.

22. 15.0
I don't throw darts at a board - I bet on sure
things.

23. Getting Real

24. 16.0
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 a part of it. You've got that
killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot
to teach you.

25. 17.0
You're walking around blind without a cane, pal.
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get
together in the first place.

26. 18.0
Stop telling lies about me and I'll stop telling the
truth about you.

27. 19.0
Well, ladies and gentlemen we're not here to
indulge in fantasy but in political and economic
reality.

28. 20.0
Idealism kills every deal.

29. On Managing Time

30. 21.0
And I'm not talking a $400,000 a year working
Wall Street stiff flying first class and being
comfortable, 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.

31. 22.0
I look at a hundred deals a day. I choose one.

32. 23.0
What's worth doing, is worth doing for money. If
it's a bad bargain, nobody gains.

33. 24.0
It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

34. 25.0
The one thing I learned in jail is that money is
not the prime asset in life. Time is.

35. 26.0
Lunch is for wimps!

36. On Money

37. 27.0
Money never sleeps, pal.
He later updated this to
Money is a bitch that never sleeps!

38. 28.0
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.

39. 29.0
It's not about the money. It's about the game
between people.

40. 30.0
I don't like losses, sport. Nothing ruins my day
more than losses.

41. Describing Himself

42. 31.0
I am not a destroyer of companies; I am a
liberator of them.

43. 32.0
I create nothing. I own.

44. 33.0
In my book, you either do it right, or you get
eliminated.

45. 34.0
The richest one percent of this country owns half
our country's wealth…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. 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.

46. What he expects from his employees

47. 35.0
Most of these Harvard MBA types - they don't
add up to dogshit. Give me guys that are poor,
smart, hungry - and no feelings. You win a few,
you lose a few, but you keep on fighting.

48. 36.0
You had what it took to get into my office; The
real question is whether you got what it takes to
stay.

49. 37.0
It’s not always the popular guy who gets the job
done.

50. 38.0
Christmas is over, and business is business.

51. 39.0
Hey, hey, stay positive, pal. Most people, they
lose, they whine and quit. But you got to be there
for the turns. Everybody's got good luck,
everybody's got bad luck. Don't run when you
lose. Don't whine when it hurts. It's like the first
grade, Jerry. Nobody likes a crybaby.

52. On Capitalism

53. 40.0
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!

54. Endgame

55. 41.0
What the hell, so we only make ten million.

56. On Revenge

57. 42.0
When I get a hold of the son of a bitch who
leaked this, I'm gonna tear his eyeballs out and
I'm gonna suck his fucking skull.

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