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    At the shareholder's meeting, Gekko (Michael Douglas) announces that "greed is good."
    FILM DESCRIPTION:
    "Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns to rape, murder and bury his sense of ethics. Only when Gekko's wheeling and dealing causes a near-tragedy on a personal level does Fox "reform"-though his means of destroying Gekko are every bit as underhanded as his previous activities on the trading floor. Director Stone, who cowrote Wall Street with Stanley Weiser, has claimed that the film was prompted by the callous treatment afforded his stockbroker father after 50 years in the business; this may be why the film's most compelling scenes are those between Bud Fox and his airline mechanic father (played by Charlie Sheen's real-life dad Martin). Ironically, Wall Street was released just before the October, 1987 stock market crash.
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    Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Producers: Michael Flynn, A. Kitman Ho, Edward R. Pressman
    Screenwriters: Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
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  • @silentreactor97
    @silentreactor97 6 лет назад +923

    Michael Douglas was phenomenal In this , Deserved that Oscar that year easily.

  • @GamerFromJump
    @GamerFromJump 4 года назад +1958

    “You get it right, or you get eliminated”
    Or you get a bailout.

    • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
      @AleksandrStrizhevskiy 4 года назад +93

      Survival of the unfittest.

    • @JFBD1999
      @JFBD1999 4 года назад +133

      True capitalism would have let those idiot bankers fall on their swords and made way for better blood.

    • @GamerFromJump
      @GamerFromJump 4 года назад +15

      Joao Domingues - But they wouldn’t have done it in the first place if the government hadn’t screamed about the “racism” of “red lines” and basically forced them to do it.

    • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
      @AleksandrStrizhevskiy 4 года назад +54

      @@GamerFromJump What are you talking about? What does racism have to do with City Bank getting a bailout?

    • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
      @AleksandrStrizhevskiy 4 года назад +4

      @TradingKid1998 Most shareholders hold a handful of shares of a stock. Most of the money (like 10 billion) would go to the largest shareholders.

  • @philmiller5081
    @philmiller5081 8 лет назад +1950

    Ah, the 80s the decade of plenty. I can guarantee that every lawyer and stock broker watched and memorized that speech.

    • @zzanatos2001
      @zzanatos2001 7 лет назад +104

      Every Republican.

    • @TheGtracer1994
      @TheGtracer1994 6 лет назад +71

      Every business student (like myself)

    • @MrWhite-pn7ui
      @MrWhite-pn7ui 6 лет назад +87

      +Zachary Zarko Go back to reading the communist manifesto.

    • @ryanwalters2789
      @ryanwalters2789 6 лет назад +18

      Phil Miller Actually it is exceptional acting. For those of us who are older (myself and others), we remember Michael Douglas from The China Syndrome and other classics, from before DiCaprio was alive.

    • @dkupke
      @dkupke 6 лет назад +113

      I remember reading Michael Douglas got some feedback from real people in investments and banking who told him how inspiration it was and that Gordon Gecko is their role model. And he said he was “disturbed” by that-because Gecko is a liar, thief, and back stabber-not a person anyone should want to emulate.

  • @jjmah7
    @jjmah7 2 года назад +450

    “For lack of a better word”
    Idk, but I find that small phrase really made the speech glow. Very well written

    • @pyootchnich
      @pyootchnich 2 года назад +29

      💯. Great observation. Greed has such a negative connotation in our society. This phrase creates a bridge for acceptance for the audience.

    • @LateStageCap
      @LateStageCap 2 года назад +13

      Great catch! It’s so good because if the man had a good spirit, the "better word" would have been "love"

    • @grantmccoy6739
      @grantmccoy6739 Год назад +15

      He's basically using progress, ambition, etc. as a justification for greed. Or saying that those things are greed, and those things are good.
      What greed actually is, selfishness to the detriment of others, is not very good, clearly.

    • @JMarieCAlove
      @JMarieCAlove Год назад +4

      He said, "Greed, for lack of a better word", but either way, was a phrase no one forgot to this day if they saw this movie. Michael Douglas was awesome and even convincing, a lot of men in the 80s, wanted to be and look like Gordon Gekko.

    • @jjmah7
      @jjmah7 Год назад +1

      @@JMarieCAlove corrected, thanks!

  • @Pajamalamalamalama
    @Pajamalamalamalama 3 года назад +263

    the face Michael Douglas makes at 1:27 is perfect. like a kid getting back to his seat after killing a class presentation

  • @RideAcrossTheRiver
    @RideAcrossTheRiver 3 года назад +435

    "I am not a destroyer of companies! I am a liberator of them!"
    _destroys every company he absorbs_

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 года назад +15

      @@akshaynatu1084 Remember, Gekko says he wrecks anything that is wreckable whether it does good or bad.

    • @WestCoastAce27
      @WestCoastAce27 2 года назад +12

      Once you take over and REALLY understand how a company is organized, operates, you can decide if it’s salvageable or not.
      But no doubt: it the era this movie came out there were many who only bought to pick clean and kill.

    • @kev3d
      @kev3d 2 года назад +23

      "Destroy"? Where is the profit in that? Companies are not "destroyed", they are broken up with the assets sold to those who want to buy them in the hopes that they can do better with them than the previous owner. To buy something just to destroy it would kill one's stock price, what would be the point?

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 года назад +3

      @@kev3d "they are broken up with the assets sold"
      The assets of a company are PEOPLE and JOBS, you goddam fool. You dopes miss entirely the point of the film--exactly what Stone knew you'd do.

    • @seanwieland9763
      @seanwieland9763 2 года назад +14

      The breakup value is higher. Pretty self-explanatory. Hence, liberator of capital.

  • @Mullet-ZubazPants
    @Mullet-ZubazPants 5 лет назад +2751

    At least he's honest. Our new feudal lords in Silicon Valley pretend they're humanitarian altruists, when they're really just Gordon Gekko's with a liberal facade

    • @coreythomas3633
      @coreythomas3633 4 года назад +68

      EXACTLY

    • @nabilyassin1742
      @nabilyassin1742 4 года назад +56

      @Mr unknown I agree classical liberalism is very diferent from this weird new stuff.

    • @nathangarcia4522
      @nathangarcia4522 4 года назад +35

      And the proliferation of hand held devices has given them an unprecedented amount of power.

    • @ActionableFreedom
      @ActionableFreedom 4 года назад +62

      The problem with the modern capitalist system is that the stock owner is passive and not active. In the past there used to be fewer stock owners, those owned fewer companies inbetween them and were involved in them.
      Before capitalism and corporations we had private business. No they arent the same. Business and mercantelism is different from corporations and capitalism. The state gave the corporation its right to be human and to form a charter.
      It was done in the past only when you needed to do transnational projects like the railroad companies and one company or the state couldnt finance everything itself.
      Now its the norm. And you get these CEOs and and banks involved and they buy up the freakin government, then they take too big risks because the stock owners are both too passive and too greedy and then they fail and either the companies go bust or the people have to bail them out with their taxes as if its some kind of socialism for the rich.
      Its a club of a bunch of interconnected people. The Silicon Valley types are in most cases self made or at least had ideas to begin with. They are all creators. They are doers. They made something rather than just bought something and resold it.
      The Silicon Valley people at least try to point out the mess this is. And try to engage in some socially progressive projects, face value or not.
      So no, I wouldnt say its that simple. Something is rotten and anyone with a nose can smell the stench.

    • @funkspinna
      @funkspinna 4 года назад +1

      Well put.

  • @briansmith5239
    @briansmith5239 2 года назад +110

    One of Douglas best performances along with his role in Falling Down.

    • @WestCoastAce27
      @WestCoastAce27 2 года назад +5

      Defense!

    • @phillipicus7446
      @phillipicus7446 2 года назад +3

      "Dont forget me."

    • @benphillips2947
      @benphillips2947 2 года назад +5

      Both villain roles that frightening many don't recognize as villains.

    • @mts2457
      @mts2457 Год назад

      Mcd should have all day breakfast still

    • @richlee509
      @richlee509 Год назад

      Why are you showing me this? I'm not you can keep that, that's just for fun.

  • @markgarcia8253
    @markgarcia8253 3 года назад +315

    “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” -also Oliver Stone

    • @olliegardner4901
      @olliegardner4901 3 года назад +52

      Keep forgetting he wrote Scarface.

    • @JohnChoidotOrg
      @JohnChoidotOrg 3 года назад +44

      "In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women." -Homer Simpson guarding his pile of highway sugar

    • @gordonliddy6997
      @gordonliddy6997 3 года назад +17

      "That's why you gotta make your own moves."

    • @googie300
      @googie300 2 года назад +1

      @@akshaynatu1084 or unless you're packing a humongous Ding ding🥒

    • @googie300
      @googie300 2 года назад

      @@akshaynatu1084 I'm screwed than buddy

  • @brisvegas859
    @brisvegas859 Год назад +48

    "Man’s desire knows no bounds. Man will never and can never be satisfied. Man’s existence is defined by his greed. Man is in essence a greedy being” - This is the view of the sixteenth century thinker Thomas Hobbes

    • @vari2d347
      @vari2d347 8 месяцев назад +1

      He's wrong

    • @brisvegas859
      @brisvegas859 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@vari2d347 given the current climate I see in the world today, man is only interested in one thing, money, the accumulation of wealth and the need to feed his or her desires. I see greed beyond belief, every single day. Very soon, the whole aystem will collapse and humanity will go through a period of petulance and suffering. They will only have themselves to blame for what is around the corner.

    • @taylorknight3577
      @taylorknight3577 3 месяца назад

      Yeah so true expecially leaders in the world and people who want power then again it's probably the reason why we made it this far greed can give you drive to do more and create more but everything has it's down side

  • @NateOBrien
    @NateOBrien 4 года назад +314

    Is this Dan Bilzerians dad?

    • @cbrodie79
      @cbrodie79 3 года назад +40

      I love how DB claims he won all his money in poker and just happens to have a trust fund

    • @jeremysears4263
      @jeremysears4263 3 года назад +5

      @Kieli Mies Perhaps. But it's his life to live.

    • @joyandpeacefullaughter5307
      @joyandpeacefullaughter5307 3 года назад +2

      🤣

    • @PrismanSP
      @PrismanSP 2 года назад +3

      He is a failure of a man.

  • @d.c.barker
    @d.c.barker Год назад +14

    Fly me to the moon...let me play among the stars.
    I always liked that song.

  • @patriousthefallenknight3185
    @patriousthefallenknight3185 4 года назад +349

    "my dad says greed is bad"
    "your DAD wouldnt know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!"

  • @Ant1Ol
    @Ant1Ol 6 лет назад +1124

    This is the CEO of EA, right?

    • @LibertarianGamer-ff5tg
      @LibertarianGamer-ff5tg 6 лет назад +24

      More like Gaben from Steam. Because Steam usually make hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions.

    • @thomasanderson5929
      @thomasanderson5929 5 лет назад +69

      Nope, CEO of Apple. Tim Cook just said that selling a $1,500 iPhone is 'serving everyone' What a scumbag.

    • @BRN497
      @BRN497 5 лет назад +1

      @@thomasanderson5929 hahaha

    • @mlchaelwray528
      @mlchaelwray528 5 лет назад +2

      "Gfeed is not good ".😎

    • @r3n736
      @r3n736 5 лет назад +19

      @@LibertarianGamer-ff5tg Steam brought affordable gaming to us. Thanks to their sales. Decades ago a video game would cost you 50$ to 60$+ no sales.

  • @zackthebongripper7274
    @zackthebongripper7274 7 лет назад +412

    A little greed is good and healthy. Too much greed is destructive to oneself and everyone around them. it's the same thing with anything: eat too much get fat, etc.

    • @michaeldob7861
      @michaeldob7861 5 лет назад +17

      chief tp That’s not greed, that’s success.

    • @ExperienceLOS7713
      @ExperienceLOS7713 4 года назад +42

      Ambition is a better word. Greed implies excess.

    • @diegomartinez9785
      @diegomartinez9785 4 года назад +3

      @@michaeldob7861 "What you see is a guy who never measured a man's success by the size of his wallet"

    • @michaeldob7861
      @michaeldob7861 4 года назад +10

      @@diegomartinez9785 Yes, that's true. Successful people are not always rich. But all rich people are successful. Remember tho, money is just a thing the usually follows after all the success. It's not money that defines you, it's the person you are that defines your wealth.

    • @diegomartinez9785
      @diegomartinez9785 4 года назад +3

      Trying to make more money at 88 when you won't even get to spend it, that doesn't sound like success to me

  • @nathanslay6342
    @nathanslay6342 Год назад +35

    This movie is so awesome!! The dialogue in this movie flows like poetry! And each scenes flows perfectly from scene to scene and has such great cautionary themes. Michael Douglass and Charlie Sheen killed it!!

    • @joshuakricker4177
      @joshuakricker4177 9 месяцев назад

      My understanding is that the dialogue was almost a verbatim recitation from Junk Bond Trader Ivan Boesky in a similar situation. Boesky was later fined $2,000,000.00 for insider trading that he paid that day out of his pocket.

  • @mattbernabe
    @mattbernabe Год назад +30

    Probably my top favorite Michael Douglas performance.
    Along with
    Falling Down
    Behind The Candelabra
    Wonder Boys
    Basic Instinct
    Romancing The Stone
    Fatal Attraction
    The War of the Roses

    • @2steaksandwiches665
      @2steaksandwiches665 3 месяца назад

      Falling down is better. But I hear you man. He’s an American treasurer.

  • @killkracka4travyon821
    @killkracka4travyon821 2 года назад +11

    Michael Douglas was very charismatic in this movie. Sometimes actors just shine.

  • @SalemGhassanHanna
    @SalemGhassanHanna Год назад +14

    Gekko hardly blinks during his speech. Helps really drive his point through

    • @shawnkalin9337
      @shawnkalin9337 Год назад +2

      I believe they cut the blinks.
      Industry secret. 👀

  • @kr2004jp
    @kr2004jp 4 года назад +24

    His performance is incredible!

  • @mhoran21
    @mhoran21 3 года назад +44

    These are the same old men losing money shorting GameStop.

    • @softb
      @softb 3 года назад +7

      @Gubba Bump you do know every time the stock goes up they loose money right? doesn't matter if it went down
      if it goes up again by 30 dollars they loose 1 billion, these same dudes bought 140 percent meaning 40 percent more than they owned lol
      the only way for them to make their money back is by manipulating the stock to fall to 1 dollar or something
      yeah sure greed is good, until you decide to. be a an idiot, ruin people's lives and bite Moore than you can handle

  • @rajivshori
    @rajivshori 3 года назад +17

    Absolutely brilliant Michael Douglas

  • @placebo5466
    @placebo5466 7 лет назад +767

    Been broke trying to be a good person. Let's try this greed thing...

    • @dkupke
      @dkupke 7 лет назад +23

      Read up on the Ferengi of Star Trek

    • @dogguy8603
      @dogguy8603 6 лет назад +22

      Make sure to put money in a Cook islands trust

    • @BGAKHH
      @BGAKHH 6 лет назад +7

      Be nice

    • @Bballer12ification
      @Bballer12ification 5 лет назад +29

      Placebo being a good person has nothing on making money.
      Provide a high in demand skill/service or sell/resell/drop ship a badass product

    • @charliedallachie3539
      @charliedallachie3539 5 лет назад +15

      Never sell your soul....

  • @natalieps2387
    @natalieps2387 4 года назад +19

    This speech is so legendary greed is good it probably got him the academy award alone.

  • @viksaggu9085
    @viksaggu9085 3 года назад +19

    80s movies had the best speeches

    • @perfesser944
      @perfesser944 24 дня назад

      When it comes to money, this speech, Danny deVito's speech in Other People's Money, and Francisco d'Anconia's speech about money in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" - unfortunately not included in the movie, as it is too long - are the best ever written.

  • @NoOne-py5or
    @NoOne-py5or 7 лет назад +161

    The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.

    • @y-mgkdante
      @y-mgkdante 5 лет назад +14

      But earth is a finite resource

    • @shinseiki2015
      @shinseiki2015 5 лет назад +8

      no, earth is an infinite resource, once we start producing what we need atom by atom, we'll liberate infinity and beyond...

    • @TheOneLichemperor
      @TheOneLichemperor 5 лет назад +12

      @@shinseiki2015 Not once, but _if._
      Such technology is still in the realms of science fiction at this point, and we aught to take care of what limited resources we have if we're to have any hope of reaching the point were we can master such tools.
      You're not incorrect, though.

    • @shinseiki2015
      @shinseiki2015 5 лет назад +4

      there is no if my friend we are not here to take part, we are here to take over, you living under a rock if you not aware of the exponential progress of nanotechnologies, within the next 10 years we will progress by 1000 years according to ray kurzweil

    • @Shadders2010
      @Shadders2010 5 лет назад +8

      You forgrt the point of the scene is that he's a con artist. It's good-sounding pablum but by the end of the film we realize he's an inside trader who produces nothing and cons the audience. When Fox does it to him he even savagely beats him. His speech is a load of barnacles.

  • @Redkodiak1994
    @Redkodiak1994 9 месяцев назад +2

    That quote Reminds me of that greed song from toxik and they used that pt

  • @paulkowalik9604
    @paulkowalik9604 Год назад +4

    Unfortunately life is not about right or wrong, but how much.

  • @arty478
    @arty478 7 лет назад +53

    This movie must see every single generation...

    • @jlupus8804
      @jlupus8804 4 года назад

      what?

    • @jlupus8804
      @jlupus8804 4 года назад

      @James Thomson Oh thanks, his accent threw me off

  • @cybernautadventurer
    @cybernautadventurer Год назад +29

    He was supposed to be the villain, yet he ended up inspiring a whole generation of stockbrokers.

  • @CathyKitson
    @CathyKitson 3 года назад +32

    "Greed is good'" is always taken out of context. He says: "Greed, *_for lack of a better word,_* is good." I think those six extra words do make a difference. Still don't agree with him, though.

    • @CathyKitson
      @CathyKitson 3 года назад

      @@Nature-ck9nz You're quite right.

    • @CathyKitson
      @CathyKitson 3 года назад +3

      @@Nature-ck9nz Thank you. Humans have never been very good at learning from history. You know what they say, "Plus ça change..."

    • @alexs5744
      @alexs5744 2 года назад +1

      @@Nature-ck9nz I’d rather have greed than the idealistic and naive World you people want.

    • @owlontheprowl1657
      @owlontheprowl1657 2 года назад

      I do.

    • @kev3d
      @kev3d 2 года назад

      Why not? People in Chicago can eat bananas and pineapples in the middle of winter because farmers are greedy for Chicagoan's money. If humanity had stuck with "don't be greedy, be happy with what you have" or "only have what you absolutely need and no more" then we'd have never left the caves.

  • @HansSilver
    @HansSilver 6 лет назад +26

    M douglass in this movie was wawesome
    He deserve the oscar without any hesitation

  • @Pokarface7
    @Pokarface7 3 года назад +21

    When they asked me to introduce myself on the first day at my door to door sales job when I was in high school , lol

  • @Levelworm
    @Levelworm 6 лет назад +25

    So true. Especially the part "Greed in all of its forms..."

  • @newwave26
    @newwave26 2 года назад +8

    This movie, for lack of a better word, is good

  • @bigman9854
    @bigman9854 2 года назад +7

    This is in my textbook lmao

  • @matteoromenghi
    @matteoromenghi 7 лет назад +4

    What a magnificent character!!!

  • @jgc1077
    @jgc1077 2 года назад +78

    This is a great speech. Almost brings tears to my eyes. In that respect, Stone may have fallen into Milton's trap of making his villain more attractive than his hero.

    • @jackprescott9652
      @jackprescott9652 Год назад +2

      Why is that called Milton friedman`s trap?

    • @munyansebastien7127
      @munyansebastien7127 Год назад +7

      @@jackprescott9652 Not Milton Friedman - _John Milton_ , or is this a joke? I'm confused...

    • @jackprescott9652
      @jackprescott9652 Год назад +1

      @@munyansebastien7127 is not a joke. I didn`t knew there were John Milton trap.

    • @EyeMixMusic
      @EyeMixMusic Год назад +2

      Boy, did this speech go over your head. If you find anything about Gordon Gekko "attractive" then you really weren't paying attention.

    • @jgc1077
      @jgc1077 Год назад +4

      @@EyeMixMusic No, it went over your head and, ironically, maybe over Stone's head, too. Greed is part of human nature, and although it has pitfalls, it's produced a lot of good. Is it a coincidence that capitalism has produced so much more innovation than other systems?

  • @Nick1977Lau
    @Nick1977Lau 4 года назад +7

    Legendary speech

  • @smcracraft
    @smcracraft 5 лет назад +5

    Went to the school (The Hill, outside Philly) where director Stone went. Fond of this particular scene from his movie. Small world. Mr. Douglas's brother recently sold my childhood home across from Lee Liberace's place in Palm Springs. When I watch this, it makes me just want to watch more Ayn Rand and read more about her. Miss Rand's institute is located nearby in Irvine. Enjoy this great speech by MD.

  • @richardque4952
    @richardque4952 3 года назад +5

    Best speech I ever heard

  • @yogi9631
    @yogi9631 Год назад +6

    One of the best performances in any movie.

  • @philliprhinehardt6268
    @philliprhinehardt6268 5 лет назад +11

    This is a classic scene.

  • @elcapitalista007
    @elcapitalista007 4 года назад +13

    This lines was inspired on Ivan Boesky (the real life Gekko) Speech in 1985

  • @y-unespynchonesky9708
    @y-unespynchonesky9708 4 года назад +19

    I can only think of few characters more iconic than Gordon Gekko.

    • @wazzup233
      @wazzup233 Год назад +1

      Elon Musk: allow me to introduce myself.

    • @romanrevenge58
      @romanrevenge58 2 месяца назад

      @@wazzup233 EH NO

  • @NorseMan633
    @NorseMan633 2 года назад +58

    Such a classic scene from a classic movie. Michael Douglas's character Gordon Gekko taking over the floor at the TELDAR PAPER annual shareholder's meeting. Oliver Stone's original Wall Street movie perfectly captures the uninhibited excessive greed and hedonistic culture and lifestyle of the 1% er's and others that ran in those circles during the 80's. Junk bonds ruled the day and eventually led to, along with other factors like early unregulated computerized trading, the biggest stock market crash at that time on Black Monday OCT 19, 1987. Markets lost over 20% of their total value in a single day. This movie, along with Wall Street 2 , Margin Call, and The Big Short are some of the best movies depicting how Wall Street operates. All just great movies to watch.

    • @joseazorrilla2973
      @joseazorrilla2973 Год назад +5

      Add "Insider job" as a movie

    • @ctdieselnut
      @ctdieselnut 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@joseazorrilla2973 Inside Job*, that was a good one imo. Just watched it recently, i think id classify it as more of a doc, than a 'movie' like wall street is. Wolf of wall st + boiler room are both worth a watch. Glengarry Glenn Ross, American psycho, while we're at it. But those aren't as focused on business as much as others. I want to see 'dumb money' when it comes out.
      These are some of my favorite movies besides comedies, i cant watch sci fi or comic book movies.
      Edit: inside job is on yt (at least for the moment).

  • @joemezeraani
    @joemezeraani 3 года назад +24

    Gamestop for lack of a better word, is good.

  • @victorjohnson4971
    @victorjohnson4971 3 года назад +2

    Greed is only not good for people who can not compete

  • @alphablitz1024
    @alphablitz1024 2 года назад +17

    The best villains always make a point.

    • @purenets6502
      @purenets6502 10 месяцев назад

      He’s not a villain you misunderstood the movie, he’s a teacher and an educator

  • @oliveredwards9894
    @oliveredwards9894 7 лет назад +271

    He's right though, you have to acknowledge the fact that people have an inherent sense of greed.

    • @a.s.5262
      @a.s.5262 7 лет назад +18

      Greed destroys everything. Greed, for a lack of a better word, is Social-Darwinism and therefor Fascism.

    • @connorohare1808
      @connorohare1808 7 лет назад +57

      Ordinary Username Facism? on the contrary, it's the beautiful free market allowing the people decide what works and what doesn't work in the private sector rather than authoritarian governments take control. please look up the definition of a word before spouting or unknowingly

    • @connorohare1808
      @connorohare1808 7 лет назад +16

      A Scam Involving Corndogs
      funny, I got this defenition
      Definition of fascism
      1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
      www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

    • @connorohare1808
      @connorohare1808 7 лет назад +6

      A Scam Involving Corndogs
      I agree, and the left is no better. my main point is that in order to avoid authoritarian governments we should have its size limited as much as possible while maintaining our basic infrastructure

    • @J10005
      @J10005 7 лет назад +1

      Connor O'Hare Limited how though is the question limiting social nets, education and healthcare? or limiting spending money or wars, war on drugs, and a large military and prison complex? Cause it is possible to have the former and still not be greedy.

  • @Racoon_UK
    @Racoon_UK 11 дней назад +1

    Love that positive uplifting attitude😅 Gordon fought with nepotism in some major corporation ; )

  • @jasonsutterfield1638
    @jasonsutterfield1638 16 дней назад +2

    Greed only feed's one's Ego.

  •  2 года назад +3

    Man and his shadow, a true force of nature.

  • @jennyg5426
    @jennyg5426 4 года назад +7

    Had to rewatch this speech after seeing the “Math is Good” speech on the Alien Institute channel. Douglas was made for the Wall Street role.

  • @ivanthegreat1980
    @ivanthegreat1980 6 лет назад +1

    This is perhaps,the best speech and acting

  • @jasjeetkaur6758
    @jasjeetkaur6758 Год назад +2

    Trust Michael Douglas to be brutally honest ,.
    Wall street or outside .

  • @Threepwoot
    @Threepwoot 8 лет назад +322

    Thats how you get an Oscar Leo :) not by yelling all the time

    • @13SLUGGS
      @13SLUGGS 7 лет назад +4

      Threepwoot whats the name of this movie he yells in?

    • @mikekillagreen9432
      @mikekillagreen9432 7 лет назад +6

      Threepwoot Moron

    • @HansSilver
      @HansSilver 6 лет назад

      CESAR ARTEAGA wall street p 1

    • @goingupandupandup
      @goingupandupandup 6 лет назад +8

      This wasn't great acting, it was great dialogue

    • @Waterinmenbenen
      @Waterinmenbenen 6 лет назад +18

      Ethan Nguyen. This was monumental acting

  • @Spectacular66
    @Spectacular66 8 лет назад +53

    When enough wasn't enough...

  • @jtlaramore4946
    @jtlaramore4946 Год назад +2

    I think greed is the wrong metaphor, but aside from that it’s a clever speech-you can’t argue with his logic.

  • @JohnDoe-yq9rt
    @JohnDoe-yq9rt 7 месяцев назад +1

    I love the smokiness in this room

  • @SuperGreatSphinx
    @SuperGreatSphinx 7 лет назад +73

    "The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder."
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

    • @bicyclist2
      @bicyclist2 3 года назад +2

      This is the most intelligent quote and comment I've seen in a long time. It's the kind of quote I would have given if I had read the same book. Thanks.

  • @VentureAHighway
    @VentureAHighway 3 года назад +5

    Iconic speech forever in American culture

  • @ethanreuter7908
    @ethanreuter7908 4 года назад +5

    0:43-Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. - Wall Street

  • @ironcito1101
    @ironcito1101 2 года назад +2

    I agree with what he's saying, although "greed" is not the right word. I don't know if there is a single word for what I think he's trying to say. Ambition? Drive? If humanity's philosophy was "be content with what you have, it's enough, why do you need more?", we would have never progressed. We always want more, we want to advance, we want to go further, we want to improve, "we choose to go to the Moon" and we climb Everest "because it's there". Of course, we shouldn't take it to the extreme and let that make us unhappy or obsessed about having more. That's what the word "greed" brings to mind. But otherwise, it's great that we have that drive, that ambition, that competitiveness that pushes us forward.

    • @tylerchambers6246
      @tylerchambers6246 2 года назад

      Greed is the right word. Meaning the desire to take more than your due, to aim to have more than the other guy. In a sense, to be a thief, not toward anyone in particular, but toward reality itself. And Greed isn't so much good as... intrinsic to everything, as Shakespeare said- everything is greedy, from the sun to the moon to the sea to the earth. Greed is good in the same way oxygen is 'good': it's inevitable and necessary.
      " I'll example you with thievery:
      The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
      Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
      And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
      The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
      The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
      That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n
      From general excrement: each thing's a thief:
      The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power
      Have uncheck'd theft."

  • @petergalbraith5652
    @petergalbraith5652 6 лет назад +19

    He's absolutely right, he's a business man who makes his investors profit because it benefits him, there are so many people in business nowadays that do nothing and seem to get paid very large salaries who do care wether that company or organisation are making profits as long as they are, greed is good.

    • @KA-gy3lz
      @KA-gy3lz 2 года назад +7

      you missed the entire point of the movie lmaooo

    • @keysersoze5032
      @keysersoze5032 Год назад +5

      He’s a clown lmao. Gekko made millions by doing illegal activities, not the honest way lmao. He’s no different than the ceo u chastised

  • @m3mario
    @m3mario Год назад +3

    Essentially he is convincing all the shareholders to either dissolve or greatly downsize the company by being greedy and ignoring the plight of the employees and the company’s mission.

    • @lordgoro
      @lordgoro Год назад

      capitalism

    • @Phil_Mitchell
      @Phil_Mitchell Год назад

      So what if he is? I don't want to live in a communist hellhole where government regulates the markets and individuals to their fake egalitarian whims.

  • @acerothstein4755
    @acerothstein4755 5 лет назад +3

    Douglas does a great job here portraying the greased back hair and fancy suit stock manipulator.

  • @mysterb7600
    @mysterb7600 5 лет назад +1

    The dig on the Gov is fantastic!

  • @Rockhound6165
    @Rockhound6165 4 года назад +4

    For all of you who hate a speech like this, if it weren't for greed we wouldn't have the technological marvels we have in our homes today. Cell phones, lap tops or computers in general, nice cars, etc wouldn't exist.

  • @PolybiusArcadia
    @PolybiusArcadia Год назад +3

    Gordon isn’t wrong.

  • @eanayac
    @eanayac 4 года назад +2

    This film was way ahead of its time!!

  • @Alahadinc
    @Alahadinc 2 месяца назад

    The score to this movie, "This Must Be the Place" by Talking Heads, is still one of my all time favorites!!!

  • @hugodrax71
    @hugodrax71 4 года назад +9

    He forgot to add - "Greed will put me in jail"

  • @trueblueclue
    @trueblueclue 4 года назад +3

    They missed half the speech. That previous half was insightful amd relevant.

  • @somethingsomething9008
    @somethingsomething9008 2 года назад +2

    "Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad, either. You humans think greed is just for money and power! But everyone wants something they don't have." greedling

  • @773superprguy
    @773superprguy 7 лет назад +8

    Geko for president!!!

    • @moqui5783
      @moqui5783 7 лет назад +6

      javy sto We have had presidents like this it leads to war and a housing crisis.

  • @alexjenkinson5813
    @alexjenkinson5813 3 года назад +4

    I’d like to report a robbery of an academy award

  • @simontemplar5506
    @simontemplar5506 3 года назад +6

    Michael Douglas & the team said: we made this Oliver Stone movies to denounce people's greed, but they've all wanted to become greedy ever since, the other side of the coin.

  • @emptynight6377
    @emptynight6377 2 года назад +2

    He's right only in the sense that human greed enables us to reach higher in our evolution.

  • @LoveFineArts
    @LoveFineArts 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great speech!

  • @Studentofgosset
    @Studentofgosset 4 года назад +14

    And greed is what prompted those in charge to pay themselves more than they are worth. The argument is vacuous.

    • @nagatouzumaki3492
      @nagatouzumaki3492 2 года назад +1

      And how do you determine how much they're worth? Customers determine in part by that by how much services provided by people in charge are worth (other being costs of production or providing service, maintenance of entire structure etc) by their willingness to pay for those based on several factors (in corporations shareholders being at top of the food chain, followed by board of directors, chairman and CEO).

    • @WestCoastAce27
      @WestCoastAce27 2 года назад +1

      Cope. And bitterness. You don’t know what you don’t know. The CEOs have no lives; they work incredible hours, have to make decisions that determine the fate of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands (millions if you incl the supply chain) of jobs. Yes, there are incompetents, there are corrupt ones.

  • @AEMoreira81
    @AEMoreira81 3 года назад +8

    Reddit in 2021: I’ll show you how it’s done!

  • @yodizzll
    @yodizzll 4 года назад +1

    the problem with this ideology is that greed breeds attachment. if you are attached, and you lose that which you are attached to, then you are broken. but if you are detached, then you are free.

  • @christianlingurar7085
    @christianlingurar7085 Год назад +1

    timeless gem

  • @mygoogleemail2063
    @mygoogleemail2063 4 года назад +7

    I can relate, but when you start raiding pensions I get a bit uppity.

  • @mobiz711
    @mobiz711 4 года назад +8

    Ayn Rand would be proud.

  • @anonimniprofil3816
    @anonimniprofil3816 5 лет назад

    For all the gold that is beneath the moon, Or ever has been, of these weary souls Could never make a single one repose.

  • @katelynpringle5506
    @katelynpringle5506 2 года назад +4

    “Greed works.”
    Everyone in 2008: *are you sure about that*

    • @JR7noir
      @JR7noir 2 года назад

      Sigue siendo buena
      Greed rules

    • @LordFuzzy32
      @LordFuzzy32 2 года назад

      What happened in 2008 is the end result of 1998 Democrats policy that, eveyone gets a home wether they can afford it or not.

  • @gumballsrelative9197
    @gumballsrelative9197 8 лет назад +6

    One may smile a smile and be a villain.
    Damn is he good.

    • @Sommer57
      @Sommer57 8 лет назад +1

      But I can smile, and murder while I smile. - Richard III

  • @CarFreeSegnitz
    @CarFreeSegnitz 6 лет назад +10

    Greed discounts the human costs. Grind up people because they currently don't have a place in the economy.
    Greed can lead to terrible consequences. Monopolies are the logical conclusion of corporate competition. Grind down your competition until you're the only player. Ruthlessly stomp on any who might try to rise up and compete against you. Great for the owners and shareholders of the monopoly. Truely terrible for the consumer.

    • @ally11488
      @ally11488 6 лет назад +9

      Lenard Segnitz - Preaching to the converted here. The illusion of capitalism is... 'everybody can be a successful player if they work hard enough', whilst diametrically asserting... 'the weak fail, the strong survive'. People buy into it and end up in wage slavery with no retirement fund.
      Time for something better.

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal 3 года назад

      @Sam Erens yes there is, look at europe
      A little something of regulated capitalism

  • @rickyspanish6087
    @rickyspanish6087 3 года назад +2

    Greed is good, until you are on a death bed , then you question yourself , do I deserve heaven or hell? Did I make other people miserable because of my own greed ?

  • @Galgus2000
    @Galgus2000 11 месяцев назад +2

    Unironically correct, it is a shame that free self interest has been demonized in favor of false altruism.

  • @DamenKorkoras
    @DamenKorkoras 8 лет назад +149

    This movie and this moment perfectly summarizes baby boomers.

    • @mikec.2360
      @mikec.2360 8 лет назад +39

      Summarizes humanity.

    • @connorohare1808
      @connorohare1808 7 лет назад +30

      Mike C. everything is driven by incentive, those that admit this and allow themselves the desire to better themselves and push for success are the winners, that's what he means by "greed is good" and I agree it's good indeed

    • @mattkingsbury9459
      @mattkingsbury9459 7 лет назад +5

      Fairly certain everyone in America is motivated by a desire to better themselves, Connor. If it were as simple as desiring to be better, the economy wouldn't have any problems, now would it?

    • @laughingsnake1989
      @laughingsnake1989 5 лет назад +5

      No one builds or creates something out of the goodness of there hearts they make it for money

    • @viralbuthow000
      @viralbuthow000 5 лет назад +1

      You mean those people who searched for meaning at Woodstock and scoffed at materialism and selling out? Dang.

  • @Zombiesnyder13
    @Zombiesnyder13 4 года назад +3

    Greed isn't good
    Greed is for amateurs

  • @drbombay91765
    @drbombay91765 2 года назад

    Resonates now more than ever!

  • @markgiordonello6710
    @markgiordonello6710 Год назад +2

    michael Douglas epitomized the mid 1980's yuppie scumbag corporate raider better than anyone has before. a well deserved oscar

  • @SuspiciouslyGroomedPegasus
    @SuspiciouslyGroomedPegasus 3 года назад +66

    "Greed is good!" Poor people:"Ok!"
    Rich people:"No that's not what I said no nooooo!"
    *Rich people loose billions*

    • @thestifmyster1
      @thestifmyster1 3 года назад

      AMC!

    • @thestifmyster1
      @thestifmyster1 3 года назад

      @bumdog Stupid people stay poor. I just went from 5000 in my bank account to 50k in a matter of months using smart investments.

    • @tacomeme429
      @tacomeme429 3 года назад +3

      @@thestifmyster1 and that's rich?

    • @illegalpants
      @illegalpants 2 года назад +3

      @@thestifmyster1 50k is nothing to actual rich people

    • @Mr.Bendoverr
      @Mr.Bendoverr 2 года назад +2

      @@tacomeme429 way better than 5k tho lol

  • @samkresil6011
    @samkresil6011 4 года назад +2

    0:31 Oh, but you are, Gordon. You are.

  • @charliedallachie3539
    @charliedallachie3539 5 лет назад +2

    Greed is also a cancer to society

  • @lourdesmarquez4897
    @lourdesmarquez4897 6 лет назад +2

    I love that movie.