Carl Fox: Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
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 bull****. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Gekko: You're walking around blind without a cane pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Bud: How much is enough? 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 gained its simple transferred from one perception to another.
Gekko: Every battle is won before it is ever fought. Sun-tzu, The Art of War.
Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
Gekko: I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one.
Gordon Gekko: You see that building over there? I bought it three years ago. My first real estate transaction. I sold it ten months later and made $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time it was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.
Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog.