True, though it appears as such in movie trailers and has entered the common lexicon since. Gordon Gekko's speech is classic Wall-Street-in-47-words: 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...