\"Greed is Good\" full monologue from Wallstreet
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well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me Mr Cromwell as the single largest shareholder of tells our paper to speak now. Ladies and gentlemen, we are not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality, America America has become a second rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit or a nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder, the carnegies, the Mellons, the men who built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today management has no stake in the company Altogether. These men sitting up here on less than 3% of the company, and where does Mr Cromwell put his million dollar salary? Not until their stock, he owns less than 1%. Do you own the company? That's right. You the stockholder and you're all being royally screwed over by these bureaucrats and their stake luncheons, hunting and fishing trips, corporate jets, golden parachutes. This is an outrage. You're out of line tells our paper. Mr. Cromwell tells our paper has 33 different vice presidents, Each earning over $200,000 a year. Now. I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost $110 million dollars last year and I'll bet half of that was spent on all the paper. We're going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution of corporate America seems to be survival of the unfit ist. Well, in my book, you either do it right or you get eliminated in the last seven deals that I've been involved with. There have been 1.2 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of $12 billion. Thank I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a Liberator of them. The point is ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word is good. Greed is right. Green works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all its forms. Greed for life for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed. You mark. My words will not only save tell our paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.