Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)

What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

It’s like when you see all the slave movies. Why you gotta keep reminding us about slavery? Why don’t you show us – put Michael Jordan on a $20 bill.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

[On Roberts saying ‘I don’t know if I want to give up my whole management company and take it apart.’] Don’t be stupid. I’ll make you more money than you’ve made alone.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Money frees you from things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money comes in handy.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need; if I die by four O’clock.

I don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet