Yes, you'd like to change that appointment, but you can't go in there. He's in a meeting. Alex has come up with a really ingenious way for us to, I don't know, we had a meeting scheduled today's sport.

Gordon, would you gentlemen excuse us for a second? Please. Don't you come this way, Jen. Thank you. Alex, what the hell do you want? I just found out about the garage sale down at Blue Star.

Why, last night I was reading Rudy the story of Winnie the Pooh and the honey pot.

You know what happened? Stuck his nose in the pot once too often and, uh, he got stuck. Maybe you gotta read him Pinocchio.

Gordon, I thought that you were gonna turn Blue Star around, not upside down. You used me. Well, you're walking around blind without a cane, pal.

The fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. But why do you need to wreck this company?

Because it's wreckable. All right, I took another look at it. I changed my mind. If these people lose their jobs, they got nowhere to go.

My father has worked there for 24 years. I gave him my word. It's all about bucks, kid. Progress this conversation.

Hey, buddy, you're still gonna be president, all right? And when the time comes, you're gonna parachute out a rich man with the money you're gonna make, your dad's never gonna have to work another day in his life.

So tell me, Gordon, when does it all end, huh? How many yachts can you water ski behind?

How much is enough? It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero-sum game. Somebody wins, somebody loses money.

Money itself isn't lost or made. It's simply transferred from one perception to another, like magic. This painting here, I bought it 10 years ago for 60,000.

I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real, and the more real it becomes, the more desperate they want it.

Capitalism at its finest. How much is enough? The richest 1% of this country owns half our country's wealth, 5 trillion dollars.

One-third of that comes from hard work. Two-thirds comes from an inheritance, interest on interest accumulating, widows, idiot sons, and what I do, stock and real estate speculation.

It's gambling. You got 90% of the American public out there with little or no net worth.

I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, and upheaval, the price of a paper clip. We picked that rabbit out of the hat where everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it.

Now, you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you?

Buddy, it's the free market, and you're part of it. Yeah, you got that killer instinct. Stick around, pal. I still got a lot to teach you, obviously.

WALL STREET Clip - "Democracy?" (1987) Michael Douglas

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