Gordon Gekko – Character Quotes

But, you know, when choosing between two evils, I like to try the one that I haven't tried before.

I'll make you a deal, Bretton. You stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you.

— Money's a bitch that never sleeps. And she's jealous. And if you don't pay close attention, you wake up in the morning, and she might be gone forever.
— Respectfully, Mr. Gekko, I don't want to end up where you are because of money.
— Oh, yeah. So marry it instead, right?

You're all pretty much fucked. You don't know it yet, but you're the NINJA generation. No income. No job. No assets. You got a lot to look forward to.

Relationship is like bubble, it's fragile.

Idealism. Idealism, pal, it kills every deal.

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

Right now, it is ugly times ugly. And that's when the ugly get going.

— My name is Jacob Moore. I'm gonna marry your daughter.
— Does she know that?
— She pretended to.

Greed is good. Now it seems it's legal.

You know, they say parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.