Fimm kvót úr Wall Street. Þetta á merkilega vel við núna. Ég fíla númer fjögur einna best. Skemmtilega sturluð komment hjá Gekko. Hann hefur margsinnis verið nýttur sem útgangspunktur í fréttaskýringum um hlutabréfamarkaði. Forsíða Fortune, með Douglas á forsíðunni sem Gekko, er fræg. Þar segir að vogunarsjóðirnir myndu borða hann í morgunmat, ef hann væri eitthvað að rífa kjaft núna. Það segir manni kannski eitthvað um hvernig ástandið á Wall Street hefur verið undanfarin ár. Sem endaði með því að globalska markaðssystemið-skreið til ríkisins, um allan heim, og bað um hjálp.

1. Greed is good.

2. 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, don't get emotional about stock. Don't! The bid is 16 1/2 and going down. 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 cocksucker!* Bud Fox: It's two minutes to closing, Gordon. What do you want to do? Decide. Gordon Gekko: [calms down] Dump it.

3. If you need a friend, get a dog.

4. Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my kneecaps.

5. 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, 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 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.