[1rudeboy]

Let's have some fun. Quoting the great economist and philosopher Gordon Gekko:

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 pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you.

I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them!

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.

And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

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[Mase]

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Always liked Gordon Gecko. His character never stood a chance though with a socialist like Oliver Stone managing the script.

In Stone's world, just like Sham's and A.Pole's, only a greed obsessed capitalist pig like Gecko, who thinks free markets, unfettered competition and self interest are good, would be immoral enough to flagrantly violate the law and unfairly game the system to his benefit.

I'm sure, in the minds of the anti-freedom-to-trade crowd, Gordon Gecko was a traitor even before he broke the law. Anyone who makes money by forcing companies to compete has to be doing so at the expense of working Americans.

The government ought to do something about guys like this.