Gordon Gekko

In the 1987 movie “Wall Street”, Gordon Gekko declared: The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Michael Douglas

One of the more famous lines from movies that will stay with all of us is when Michael Douglas says in the movie “Wall Street” , “Greed is Good”.

Gordon Gecko

God tells us not to covet, but in the movie “Wall Street,” Gordon Gecko tells us that “Greed is Good” and Michael Douglas does such a good job with the message that maybe Allow Pastors ’s right.

Gordon Gekko character

It seems that in the film 'Wall Street,' the Gordon Gekko character says 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,'

Gekko

In fact the quote from Gekko that “greed is good,” was named one of the American Film Institute’s top 100 movie quotations of all time.

Wall Street

‘Greed is good’ is a line from the 80s film, Wall Street.

Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas

The Final Word: In 1987, Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas taught audiences that “Greed is Good.”

Oliver Stone

A year after Oliver Stone elevated the phrase “Greed is good” to a satirical double-edged mantra in “Wall Street,” John Carpenter put Wall Street more bluntly in a scruffy little genre movie with a subversive subtext.

Gordon Geiko

“Greed is good” was a phrase spoken by Gordon Geiko in the 1987 movie “Wall Street, starring Michael Douglas.

Gordon Gekko , the main antagonist in the 1987 film

When Gordon Gekko, the main antagonist in the 1987 film, Wall Street declared in no uncertain terms that “Greed is good!”

Gekko’s character

Gekko’s character, in case you never saw the movie, created the tag line “greed is good” even as Warren Buffett raided – then stripped – companies in the name of millions.

the blood

I was flipping past Twenty to One last night, when the blood mentioned a line from the movie Wall Street - where the blood said that greed is good.

Adam Smith

What Adam Smith said is, that greed is good and that by becoming richer you benefit everybody, not just yourself.

Mike Douglas

Many people heard Mike Douglas utter “greed is good” in a movie and followed that heartless path.

the next film '' Wall Street 2

– Douglas's original version had talked about greed, and the next film 'Wall Street 2' actually used the slogan ‘Greed is Good’.

inviting the reader to supply that resonance on the Ivan Boesky “Greed's own

“Greed is good” — inviting the reader to supply that resonance on the Ivan Boesky “Greed's own.

London Mayor Boris Johnson’s

In the wake of London Mayor Boris Johnson’s claim that greed was indeed good, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, not to be outdone, has claimed that all seven traditional deadly sins are fine and dandy and part of contemporary Conservatism.

such characters as Martin Zweig, Michael Milken, and Ivan Boesky, with the fictional “Gordon Gekko” as the archetype

In the “Greed is Good” era of the 1980s, the narrative was fed by such characters as Martin Zweig, Michael Milken, and Ivan Boesky, with the fictional “Gordon Gekko” as the archetype.

Naomi Bishop

And make no mistake: Anna Gunn’s Naomi Bishop ’s believes that greed is good — even if you’re a woman.

uncle Newt and cousin Grover

Thirty years after uncle Ronnie, uncle Newt and cousin Grover convinced us that Greed is Good.