Gordon Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Gordon Gekko: It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
[In Bud's new office] Marv: Very nice. So what is it, *Mr.* Cocksucker now?
Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is information.
Gordon Gekko: I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox.
Gordon Gekko: I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one.
Gordon Gekko: Well you take it, right in the ass you scumbag cocksucker.
Bud Fox: Great, Carroline. Doing any better and it'd be a sin.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
[Aunt] Patricia smiled, and we walked in silence for a while. But it wasn't a poisonous silence. It was the sort of silence shared by two people who're comfortable enough not to force a conversation ahead of its logical progression. I found this woma...
Donnie Azoff: Jesus Christ, I think you have a fuckin' drug problem. Jordan Belfort: Where are the 'ludes'? Donnie Azoff: They're up my ass. Don't worry about it, I got it. Jordan Belfort: [sigh of relief] Thank God.
Naomi Lapaglia: Did you just cum? Jordan Belfort: Oh yeah. I just came. Did you? Did you cum? Naomi Lapaglia: No. Jordan Belfort: No? OK. I'm still hard. Just give me a second. Naomi Lapaglia: Sure.
Jordan Belfort: Everybody needs something. Alden Kupferberg: Nah, Amish and Buddhists don't need a thing. Jordan Belfort: I'm not talking about Amish and Buddhists, I'm talking about ordinary blue-collar people who want to get rich and own stuff!
[first lines] Jordan Belfort: [in an ad] The world of investing can be a jungle. Bulls. Bears. Danger at every turn. That's why we at Stratton Oakmont pride ourselves on being the best. Trained professionals to guide you through the financial wildern...
Donnie Azoff: [raves at Brad] You're gonna knock whose fucking teeth in? Whose fucking teeth are you gonna knock in? I put the money on that fucking table, not you! Jordan Belfort: He's got a gun you fucking idiot! Donnie Azoff: Fuck his gun!
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.
I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.
