Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good" Full Speech *read the description*

Gordon Gekko *unknowningly* describes the problems facing today's private sector, while blasting the bureaucracy responsible for said problems in the first place. A classic speech, both in film and, also, within economic thought.

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(Gordon Gekko)
Well, I appreciate the opportunity

you're giving me, Mr.Cromwell,
as the single largest shareholder

in Teldar Paper to speak.

[laughs]
Well, ladies and gentlemen,

we're not here to indulge in fantasy,
but in political and economic reality.

America, America has become
a second-rate power.

Its trade deficit and its fiscal
deficit are at nightmare proportions.

Now in the days of the free market, when
our country was a top industrial power,

there was accountability
to the stockholder.

The Carnegies, the Mellons,
the men that built this great

industrial empire made sure of it
because it was their money at stake.

Today, management has no
stake in the company.

All together these men sitting up
here own less than 3% of the company.

And where did Mr.
Cromwell put his million dollar sallary?

Not in Teldar-Scott, he owns less than 1%.

You own the company, that's right,
you the stockholders and you are all being

royally screwed over by these bureaucrats,
with their state lunches,

their hunting and fishing trips, their
corporate jets and golden parachutes.

(Mr. Cromwell)
This is an outrage,

you're out of line, Gekko.

(Gordon Gekko)
Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell.

Teldar Paper has 33
different vice presidents,

each earning over $200,000 a year.

Now, I have spent the last two months
analyzing what all these guys do,

and I still can't figure it out.

[Laughs]
One thing I do know

is that our paper company lost
a $110 million last year.

And I'll bet that half of that was spent
in all the paperwork going back and

forth between all these vice presidents.

[Laughs]
The new law

of evolution in corporate America
seems to be survival of the unfittest.

Well in my book you either do it right,
or you get eliminated.

In the last seven deals that I've
been involved with, there were 2.5

million stockholders who have made
a pre-tax profit of $12 billion.

[APPLAUSE]
Thank you.

[APPLAUSE]
I am not a destroyer of companies.

I am a liberator of them.

The point is, ladies and
gentlemen, that greed,

for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and

captures the essence of
evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms,
greed for life, for money,

for love, knowledge,
has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed, you mark my words,
will not only save Teldar Paper but

that other malfunctioning
corporation called the USA.

Thank you very much.

[APPLAUSE]

[Fly me to the moon
by Frank Sinatra playing]