Which movie character said: "Greed, for want of a better word, is good"?

Answer 1

Gordon Gecko:

Wall Street is an American movie released in 1987. Rated R, it was directed by Oliver Stone, and features Michael Douglas in perhaps his most famous role. The movie has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas as the archetypal "Master of the Universe". Wall Street was written by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Michael Douglas).

Plot: Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with with to approach the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that "Greed is Good". Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of "yuppies", shady business deals, the "good life", fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father (Martin Sheen) and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.

The most remembered scene in the movie is a speech by Gekko to a shareholders' meeting of Teldar Paper, a company he is planning to take over. Stone uses this scene to give Gekko, and by extension, the Wall Street raiders he personifies, the chance to justify their actions, which he memorably does, pointing out the slothfulness and waste that corporate America accumulated through the postwar years and from which he sees himself as a "liberator":

The point is, ladies and gentlemen: 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 save not only Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
His catchphrase from the speech, "Greed is good", came to symbolise what some simplistically describe as the ruthless, profit-obsessed, short-term corporate culture of the 1980s and 1990s and by extension became associated with so-called unrestrained free-market economic policies. It remains prevalent to the present day in the investment banking industry

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) is an Oscar-winning American actor and producer.

Wall Street won Michael Douglas his second Oscar (best Actor). As a producer, he won Best Picture for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Answer 2

Gordon Gecko in the masterpiece film "Wall Street". Charlie Sheen is great as Bud Fox. His father, in the film and real life, represents the middle class of America. Gordon Gecko represents that segment of society who value money and power at the expense of any moral consequences. In this context, "greed" is considered superior to the concept of the "good".

Answer 3

Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas in the Oliver Stone film ‘Wall Street’ (1987)

Answer 4

Michael Douglas'

Answer 5

Michael Douglas' character named Gecko in the movie "Wall Street".

Answer 6

Gordon Gecko in WALL STREET. That was Oliver Stone's attempt to smear the America that voted for and supported Ronald Reagan. The truth is that donations to charities skyrocketed at that time.

Answer 7

gordon geico (oops i mean gecko) from the movie wall street