Welcome to a collection of inspiring, thought provoking and motivational from Gordon Gekko Quotes, the iconic character from the 1987 movie Wall Street. Gekko’s words of wisdom are timeless and still relevant today, as they speak to the power of ambition, greed and success in business. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, or corporate executive, you’re sure to find wisdom and guidance in these timeless words.
Gordon Gekko quotes about greed and money
🟦 “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”— Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Greed is right. Greed works.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.” — Gordon Gekko
“Money never sleeps, pal.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “A fisherman always sees another fisherman from afar.” –Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time.” –Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Just made 800,000 in Hong Kong gold. It’s been wired to you. Play with it.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “I’m gonna make you rich, Bud Fox. Yeah. Rich enough, you can afford a girl like Darien.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “It’s not about the money. It’s about the game between people.” –Gordon Gekko
Gordon Gekko quotes about America and wealth
🟦 “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.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions.” — Gordon Gekko
Short Gordon Gekko quotes
🟦 “ I create nothing. I own.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ Jesus, if this guy owned a funeral parlor nobody would die!” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ You’ve got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I’ve still got a lot to teach you.” — Gordon Gekko
“Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ I beg your pardon, is that a proverb?” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ If you’re not inside, you’re *outside*!” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ If you need a friend, get a dog.” — Gordon Gekko
🟦 “ It’s all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.” — Gordon Gekko
Gordon Gekko Quotes That Will Change The Way You Think About Investing
🟦 “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.”
🟦 “I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one”
🟦 “If you need a friend, get a dog”
🟦 “The most valuable commodity I know of is information”
🟦 “The mother of all evil is speculation”
🟦 “The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good”
🟦 “You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.”
Famous Gordon Gekko Quotes
🟦 “It’s all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.”
🟦 “I beg your pardon, is that a proverb?”
🟦 “I create nothing. I own.”
🟦 “It’s not always the most popular person who gets the job done.”
🟦 “You want another chance? You stop sending me information, and start getting me some.”
🟦 “I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them!”Gordon Gekko Quotes to Show His Views on Greed and Money.”
“You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.”
🟦 “What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.”
🟦 “Money never sleeps, pal. Just made 800,000 Hong Kong Gold, it’s been wired to ya. Play with it. You did good, but you gotta keep doing good. I showed you how the game works, now school’s out.”
🟦 “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.”
🟦 “Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”
🟦 “The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.”
Gordon Gekko Quotes to Provoke You
🟦 “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 f*cking pay me back you cockroach?”
🟦 “When I get a hold of the son of a b*tch who leaked this, I am going to tear his eyeballs out and suck his f*cking skull.”
🟦 “Where the hell are you? I am losing millions! You got me into this company and sure as hell better get me out or the only job you’ll have on the street is sweeping it! You hear me, Fox?”
🟦 “What the hell is Cromwell doin’ giving a lecture tour when he’s losing 60 million a quarter? Guess he’s giving lectures on how to lose money.”
🟦 “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 worked like an elephant pushing electrical supplies and he dropped dead at 49 with a heart attack and tax bills.”
🟦 “Blow ’em away, Ollie. Rip their f*cking throats out. Stuff ’em in your garbage compactor.”
🟦 “Did you think you could’ve gotten this far this fast with anyone else, huh? That you’d be out there dicking someone like Darien?”
🟦 “Lunch? Aw, You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.”
🟦 “You tell those spineless *ssholes we’ll self-insure if they don’t write it. I can’t believe you can fire half the management, nothing changes!”
🟦 “You’d still be cold calling widows and dentists tryin’ to sell ’em 20 shares of some dog sh*t stock. I took you in.”
Gordon Gekko Quotes for Wall Street Fans
🟦 “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.”
🟦 “I gave you Darien. I gave you your manhood. I gave you everything!”
🟦 “Now, listen, Jerry, I’m looking for negative control. Okay? No more than 30, 35%. Just enough to block anybody else’s merger plans and find out from the inside if the books are cooked. If it looks as good as on paper, we’re in the kill zone, pal. Lock and load.”
🟦 “Because it’s wreckable, alright? I took another look at it, and I changed my mind.”
🟦 “I’ve never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean, at a moment like this.”
🟦 “I’m afraid, pal, unless your father is on the board of directors of another company, you and I are going to have a very tough time doing business together.”
🟦 “Jesus, if this guy owned a funeral parlor nobody would die!”
🟦 “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 gonna make, your dad’s never gonna have to work another day in his life.”
🟦 “Showdowns bore me, Larry. Nobody wins. You can have company. In fact, it’s gonna be fun watching you and your giant ego try and make a horse race out of it.”
Best Gordon Gecko Quotes
🟦 “Ever wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? ‘Cause they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Greed is right. Greed works.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Lunch is for wimps.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “I’ve been in this business since 69 and most of these Harvard MBA types don’t add up to dog sh**. The guys that are poor, smart, and hungry…. and no feelings. You win a few, you lose a few, but you keep on fighting. And if you need a friend, get a dog… It’s trench warfare out here pal.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Lunch is for wimps.” – 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. Like magic.” – Gordon Gekko
“What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.” – 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.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “I am not a destroyer of companies, I am a liberator of them.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Greed is good.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Stop telling lies about me and I’ll stop telling the truth about you.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Idealism kills every deal.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “It’s not always the most popular person who gets the job done.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “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 desperate they want it.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “The mother of all evil is speculation.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Ever wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? ‘Cause they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Just made 800,000 in Hong Kong gold. It’s been wired to you. Play with it. You’ve done good, but you gotta keep doing good. I’ve showed you how the game works. Now School’s out.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “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. Now you’re not naïve enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you buddy? It’s the free market. And you’re a part of it.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “It’s easy to get in – it’s hard to get out.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “A fisherman always sees another fisherman from afar.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Payback. Except I’m not in that business anymore – because the one thing I learned in jail is that money is not the prime asset in life. Time is.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Idealism kills every deal.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “In my book, you either do it right, or you get eliminated.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “I create nothing. I own.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Money never sleeps, pal.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “It’s all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Don’t run when you lose, don’t whine when it hurts. It’s like first grade. No one likes a cry baby.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “It’s not about the money — it’s about the game.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “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.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Every thief has an excuse.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “If you’re not inside, you’re outside.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “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 desperate they want it.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs? They get slaughtered.” – Gordon Gekko
🟦 “Greed is good.” – Gordon Gekko
Gordon Gekko: My 5 favorite quotes from the ‘Wall Street’ villain
🟦 “First lesson in business is: Don’t get emotional about stock, clouds your judgement.”
🟦 “It’s all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.”
🟦 “Money never sleeps, pal.”
🟦 “I don’t like losses, sport. Nothing ruins my day more than losses.”
🟦 “I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun Tzu, ‘The Art of War.’ Every war is won before it is ever fought.”
Verdict
The Gordon Gekko Quotes have provided us with an insight into the ethos of the Gordon Gekko character and the world of high finance. By studying these quotes, we can gain a better understanding of the motivations and strategies of those involved in the financial world.