- Gordon Gekko: Payback. Except I'm not in that business anymore - because the one thing I learned in jail is that money is not the prime asset in life. Time is.
- Gordon Gekko: I'll make a deal with you, Bretton. You stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you.
- Jacob Moore: How's your day goin'?
- Lewis Zabel: I told you- good day I'm okay, bad day I'm okay. Stop bugging me on my feelings. They're irrelevant.
- Gordon Gekko: Someone reminded me I once said "Greed is good". Now it seems it's legal. Because everyone is drinking the same Kool Aid.
- Gordon Gekko: Hey, hey, stay positive, pal.
- Gordon Gekko: Most people, they lose, they whine and quit.
- Gordon Gekko: But you got to be there for the turns.
- Gordon Gekko: Everybody's got good luck, everybody's got bad luck.
- Gordon Gekko: Don't run when you lose. Don't whine when it hurts.
- Gordon Gekko: It's like the first grade, Jerry.
- Gordon Gekko: Nobody likes a crybaby.
- Gordon Gekko: I tell you,the government's worse than a wife.
- Gordon Gekko: They got all the power,they got half the money.
- Gordon Gekko: Now they're working on getting the other half.
- Prison Guard: [First line; Gekko is being released from prison and his belongings are being returned to him] A silk handkerchief. A tie. A watch. A ring. A gold money clip, without money... and a mobile phone.
- [the phone is a 1980s brick-size phone]
- Gordon Gekko: I'm looking for deals, only good deals. Ride the trends, just don't try too hard for the turns.
- Jacob Moore: You collect?
- Bretton James: No, only the obsessive-compulsive and the insecurely egotistical feel the need to collect things.
- Gordon Gekko: I don't wanna sound like a rooster taking credit for the dawn, but turning $100 million into $1.1 billion in this market, takes some brains, right?
- Gordon Gekko: My guys are good.
- Gordon Gekko: And it's no wonder our new fund is over-subscribed.
- Gordon Gekko: But for you, I'm gonna initiate a third fund.
- Gordon Gekko: Because, frankly, Julie, I couldn't be more excited about this. To finally be in business with you and your firm.
- Julie Steinhardt: And us with you, Gekko.
- Gordon Gekko: Yeah.
- Julie Steinhardt: 1929. It'll get worse now, 'cause it'll go faster. Money markets will dry up, round the world by the end of the week. ATMs will stop spitting bills. Federal deposit insurance will collapse. Banks'll close. Mobs panic. It's gonna be the end of the world, Bill.
- [He whistles]
- Julie Steinhardt: See?
- Jacob Moore: It's the oldest scheme since the Pharaohs built the pyramids - privatize the gains, socialize the losses - a wise man