Gekko es el especulador nato, que no crea nada, sólo posee. Su discurso en la asamblea de accionista a favor de la codicia es el verdadero Sermón de la Montaña para todos aquellos que hacen del mercado de valores un campo de batalla atractivo y peligroso. La secuencia de la oferta hostil a su adeversario es verdaderamente mitológica.
Sin embargo, la historia se centra en un caso de espionaje industrial y sobre las consecuencias que conlleva el jugar con fuego para los advenedizos e inexpertos wannabe que se arrastran por convertirse en un clon de Gekko. Por tanto, la película intenta conducir a la reflexión sobre la ética corporativa. No olvidemos que es obra de Oliver Stone. ¿Logra su objetivo? Gekko termina tras las rejas, pero su aprendiz termina de nuevo en el pozo de los mediocres. Pero ¿quién se atreve a apostar que Gordon no volverá nuevamente por más?
Citas memorables de Wall Street:
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.
Bud: How much is enough?
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 gained its simple transferred from one perception to another.
Bud Fox: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, iritate. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate.
Gekko: Every battle is won before it is ever fought. Sun-tzu, The Art of War.
Lou: A man looks in the abyss, there is nothing staring back at him. At that moment he discovers his character. That keeps the man out of the abyss.
Gekko: I know of no more valuable commodity than information.
Gordon Gekko: You see that building over there? I bought it three years ago. My first real estate transaction. I sold it ten months later and made $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time it was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.
Gordon Gekko: The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
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