Favorite movie qoutes that apply to trading
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Memorable Quotes from
Wall Street (1987)
[In Bud's new office.]
Marv: Very nice. So what is it, *Mr.* Cocksucker now?
Gordon Gekko: Lunch is for wimps.
Bud Fox: I'm tapped out Marv. American Express' got a hit man
lookin' for me.
Gordon Gekko: When I get a hold of the son of a bitch who
leaked this, I'm gonna tear his eyeballs out and I'm gonna suck
his fucking skull!
Carl Fox: Stop going for the easy buck and start producing
something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying
and selling of others.
Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns
half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that
comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance,
interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and
what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got
ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no
net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Gordon Gekko: You're walking around blind without a cane,
pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the
first place.
Bud: How much is enough?
Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero
sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't
lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to
another.
Gordon Gekko: Mixed emotions, buddy. Like Larry Wildman
going off a cliff in my new Maserati.
Bud Fox: Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If
angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and
reevaluate.
Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring
back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is
what keeps him out of the abyss.
Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do
things you don't want to do.
Bud: If you step out that door, I'm changing the locks.
Bud Fox: Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of
them.
Gordon Gekko: If something's worth doing it's worth doing for
money.
Gordon Gekko: I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox.
Gordon Gekko: I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have
your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred
million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing.
Gordon Gekko: I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure
things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won
before it is ever fought.
Gordon Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog.
Gordon Gekko: 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 the
evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for
money, 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.
Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is
information.
Gordon Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary
spirit.
Gordon Gekko: I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one.
Gordon Gekko: You see that building? I bought that building ten
years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made
an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought
that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.
Bud Fox: Why do you need to wreck this company?
Gordon Gekko: Because it's wreckable, all right?
Gordon Gekko: The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed,
for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
Gordon Gekko: Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the
S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.
Bud: This is really a nice club, Mr. Gekko.
Gordon Gekko: Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought
my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my
kneecaps.
Gordon Gekko: Hiya, Buddy
Fox: Gordon.
Gordon Gekko: Sand bagged me on Bluestar huh? Thought you
could teach the teacher a lesson that the tail can wag the dog
huh? Well let me clue you in, pal. The ice is melting right
underneath your feet. Did you think you could've gotten this far
this fast with anyone else, huh? That you'd be out there dicking
someone like Darien? Naw... you'd still be cold calling widows
and dentists tryin' to sell 'em 20 shares of some dog shit stock! I
took you in ... a NOBODY! I opened the doors for you ..
showed you how the system works.. the value of information ..
how to get it! Fulham oil, Brant resources, geodynamics and this
is how you fucking pay me back you cockroach! I gave you
Darien! I gave you your manhood I gave you everything! You
could've been one of the great ones buddy. I look at you and see
myself.. WHY?
Bud Fox: I don't know. I guest I realized that I'm just Bud Fox..
and as much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll always be
Bud Fox.
Carl Fox: I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up
with no whore. That's how I live with myself. What about you?
Gordon Gekko: Well you take it, right in the ass you scumbag
cocksucker!
Gordon Gekko: This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row,
wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the
dictionary under persistence kid.
Gordon Gekko: It's not always the most popular person who
gets the job done.
Bud Fox: Blue Horse Shoe Loves Anacot Steel.
Marv: You've been a real schmuck lately. So go thou and send
no more.
Gordon Gekko: You stop sending me information, and you start
getting me some.
Wall Street (1987)
[In Bud's new office.]
Marv: Very nice. So what is it, *Mr.* Cocksucker now?
Gordon Gekko: Lunch is for wimps.
Bud Fox: I'm tapped out Marv. American Express' got a hit man
lookin' for me.
Gordon Gekko: When I get a hold of the son of a bitch who
leaked this, I'm gonna tear his eyeballs out and I'm gonna suck
his fucking skull!
Carl Fox: Stop going for the easy buck and start producing
something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying
and selling of others.
Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns
half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that
comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance,
interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and
what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got
ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no
net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Gordon Gekko: You're walking around blind without a cane,
pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the
first place.
Bud: How much is enough?
Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero
sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't
lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to
another.
Gordon Gekko: Mixed emotions, buddy. Like Larry Wildman
going off a cliff in my new Maserati.
Bud Fox: Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If
angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and
reevaluate.
Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring
back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is
what keeps him out of the abyss.
Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do
things you don't want to do.
Bud: If you step out that door, I'm changing the locks.
Bud Fox: Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of
them.
Gordon Gekko: If something's worth doing it's worth doing for
money.
Gordon Gekko: I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox.
Gordon Gekko: I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have
your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred
million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing.
Gordon Gekko: I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure
things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won
before it is ever fought.
Gordon Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog.
Gordon Gekko: 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 the
evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for
money, 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.
Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is
information.
Gordon Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary
spirit.
Gordon Gekko: I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one.
Gordon Gekko: You see that building? I bought that building ten
years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made
an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought
that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.
Bud Fox: Why do you need to wreck this company?
Gordon Gekko: Because it's wreckable, all right?
Gordon Gekko: The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed,
for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
Gordon Gekko: Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the
S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.
Bud: This is really a nice club, Mr. Gekko.
Gordon Gekko: Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought
my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my
kneecaps.
Gordon Gekko: Hiya, Buddy
Fox: Gordon.
Gordon Gekko: Sand bagged me on Bluestar huh? Thought you
could teach the teacher a lesson that the tail can wag the dog
huh? Well let me clue you in, pal. The ice is melting right
underneath your feet. Did you think you could've gotten this far
this fast with anyone else, huh? That you'd be out there dicking
someone like Darien? Naw... you'd still be cold calling widows
and dentists tryin' to sell 'em 20 shares of some dog shit stock! I
took you in ... a NOBODY! I opened the doors for you ..
showed you how the system works.. the value of information ..
how to get it! Fulham oil, Brant resources, geodynamics and this
is how you fucking pay me back you cockroach! I gave you
Darien! I gave you your manhood I gave you everything! You
could've been one of the great ones buddy. I look at you and see
myself.. WHY?
Bud Fox: I don't know. I guest I realized that I'm just Bud Fox..
and as much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll always be
Bud Fox.
Carl Fox: I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up
with no whore. That's how I live with myself. What about you?
Gordon Gekko: Well you take it, right in the ass you scumbag
cocksucker!
Gordon Gekko: This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row,
wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the
dictionary under persistence kid.
Gordon Gekko: It's not always the most popular person who
gets the job done.
Bud Fox: Blue Horse Shoe Loves Anacot Steel.
Marv: You've been a real schmuck lately. So go thou and send
no more.
Gordon Gekko: You stop sending me information, and you start
getting me some.
Memorable Quotes from
Boiler Room (2000)
Seth Davis: Fine! I'll take you off my list of successful people
today!
Jim Young: And there is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is
made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some
stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is
made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him?
Now be relentless, that's it, I'm done.
Jim Young: They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the
fucking smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby.
Jim Young: Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil
doesn't fucking have any.
Seth Davis: The only people making money passing are NFL
quarterbacks, and Alan, I don't see a number on your back.
Greg Weinstein: Don't pitch the bitch.
Chris Varick: Hey, kid, get the fuck outa here.
Seth Davis: I read this article a while back, that said that
Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other
company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas
bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture,
of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind.
you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its
possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's
just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that
just made 20 million o his last movie, that internet stock that shot
through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just
gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I
didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make
the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG
said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a
wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore.
There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's,
honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging
crack-rock: I became a stock broker.
Broker: Pickup your skirt grab your balls and lets make some
money.
Seth Davis: Its strange to think how that knock changed
everything, everything, hey don't get me wrong here, I don't
believe in fate, i believe in odds
Greg Weinstein: Don't you have a canoli you can stick in your
mouth?
Chris Varick: Don't you have a menorah you could shove up
your ass?
Jim Young: You Want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari, 355
Cabriolet, What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South
Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of
all kids, I am liquid.
Boiler Room (2000)
Seth Davis: Fine! I'll take you off my list of successful people
today!
Jim Young: And there is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is
made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some
stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is
made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him?
Now be relentless, that's it, I'm done.
Jim Young: They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the
fucking smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby.
Jim Young: Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil
doesn't fucking have any.
Seth Davis: The only people making money passing are NFL
quarterbacks, and Alan, I don't see a number on your back.
Greg Weinstein: Don't pitch the bitch.
Chris Varick: Hey, kid, get the fuck outa here.
Seth Davis: I read this article a while back, that said that
Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other
company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas
bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture,
of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind.
you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its
possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's
just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that
just made 20 million o his last movie, that internet stock that shot
through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just
gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I
didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make
the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG
said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a
wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore.
There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's,
honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging
crack-rock: I became a stock broker.
Broker: Pickup your skirt grab your balls and lets make some
money.
Seth Davis: Its strange to think how that knock changed
everything, everything, hey don't get me wrong here, I don't
believe in fate, i believe in odds
Greg Weinstein: Don't you have a canoli you can stick in your
mouth?
Chris Varick: Don't you have a menorah you could shove up
your ass?
Jim Young: You Want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari, 355
Cabriolet, What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South
Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of
all kids, I am liquid.
Kevin: Are you a homeowner, Greg?
Greg: Ah, no... no I rent.
Kevin: Oh...
Jack (to Kevin): So things are going real, real well for you,,, aren't they?
Kevin: Yeah, I got in early on some wireless IPO's and the stuff just skyrocketed from there. What are you, Greg - what line of work are you in?
Greg: I'm in healthcare.
Kevin: So, you know what I'm talking about... a lot of benjamins to be made right now with the biotech stocks. Yeah. I don't have to tell you that. How's your portfolio?
Greg: Strong... to quite strong.
Kevin: Yeah, yeah.. you have to strike when the irons hot,,,,
now's the time.
Greg: Ah, no... no I rent.
Kevin: Oh...
Jack (to Kevin): So things are going real, real well for you,,, aren't they?
Kevin: Yeah, I got in early on some wireless IPO's and the stuff just skyrocketed from there. What are you, Greg - what line of work are you in?
Greg: I'm in healthcare.
Kevin: So, you know what I'm talking about... a lot of benjamins to be made right now with the biotech stocks. Yeah. I don't have to tell you that. How's your portfolio?
Greg: Strong... to quite strong.
Kevin: Yeah, yeah.. you have to strike when the irons hot,,,,
now's the time.
OK now these are quotes that apply to trading, quotes that have something to do with a traderâs mind.
---o0o---
Pike Bishop: I'd like to make one good score and back off...
Dutch Engstrom: Back off to what?
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Sykes: It ain't like it used to be, but it'll do.
---o0o---
Deke Thornton: What I like and what I need are two different things.
Pike Bishop: They set it up.
Lyle Gorch: They? Who in the hell is they?
Sykes: They?
Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who they is. Caught you didn't they?
Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my what a bunch. Big tough ones hunh?
Here you are with a hand full of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They?
Who the hell is they?
---o0o---
Pike Bishop: I'd like to make one good score and back off...
Dutch Engstrom: Back off to what?
---o0o---
Sykes: It ain't like it used to be, but it'll do.
---o0o---
Deke Thornton: What I like and what I need are two different things.
Pike Bishop: They set it up.
Lyle Gorch: They? Who in the hell is they?
Sykes: They?
Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who they is. Caught you didn't they?
Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my what a bunch. Big tough ones hunh?
Here you are with a hand full of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They?
Who the hell is they?
"Life is like a box of chocolate..you never know what you're going to get." Forrest Gump