The other day someone made a reference to Gorden Gekko. It turns out that most the people in the room did not know who Gorden Gekko was. Truth be told I knew I had heard the name, but could not remember where, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. Here are a few of the highlights from that article…
Gordon Gekko is a fictional character and the main character and antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps[1], both by director Oliver Stone. Gekko was portrayed by actor Michael Douglas, in a performance that won him an Oscar for Best Actor for the first movie…
In 2003, the AFI named him number 24 of the top 50 movie villains of all time.[4]
In 2008, Gordon Gekko was named the fourth richest fictional character by Forbes who attributed him with 8.5 billion dollars.
Gekko has become a symbol in popular culture for unrestrained greed (with the signature line, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good”), often in fields outside corporate finance.
For those of you who are interested in seeing Mr. Gekko in action, here is a great YouTube clip for you.
