The character of Gordon Gekko is based on many real-life figures. These include Owen Morrisey (a Wall Street broker and an old friend of Stone’s who was involved in a $20 million insider trading scandal in 1985), Dennis Levine (a corporate consultant), Ivan Boesky (a stock trader also involved in insider trading), Carl Icahn (a corporate raider), Asher Edelman (an investor and art collector), Michael Ovitz (a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 and served as its chairman for 20 years) and Stone himself.
But this speech is inspired from a real speech that Boesky gave as the commencement speaker for the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He was quoted as saying, “Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.”
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America is so fucked up.
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classic scene, still relevant today. Gekko’s speech really nailed the 80s corporate greed vibes.
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What all the people in the audience didn’t understand is that he wasn’t saying greed was good for them, he was saying greed is good for himself.
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The character of Gordon Gekko is based on many real-life figures. These include Owen Morrisey (a Wall Street broker and an old friend of Stone’s who was involved in a $20 million insider trading scandal in 1985), Dennis Levine (a corporate consultant), Ivan Boesky (a stock trader also involved in insider trading), Carl Icahn (a corporate raider), Asher Edelman (an investor and art collector), Michael Ovitz (a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 and served as its chairman for 20 years) and Stone himself.
But this speech is inspired from a real speech that Boesky gave as the commencement speaker for the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He was quoted as saying, “Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.”
America is so fucked up.
classic scene, still relevant today. Gekko’s speech really nailed the 80s corporate greed vibes.
What all the people in the audience didn’t understand is that he wasn’t saying greed was good for them, he was saying greed is good for himself.