Honesty
The Cost of Pursuing a Dream
People give up their honesty with the continuation of their lies. Lies overcome the interviewed board members of the documentary “Inside Job”. Tom and Daisy continue to lie to everyone creating chaos. Gordon Gekko’s main point in his speech is to show how “greed is good” but in a way lying is a way, or the way to achieve success. In all resources, the one thing that ties each piece together is the lack of honesty. A cost of pursuing the “American Dream” is honesty.
Tom and Daisy Buchanan
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (p 188)
Junk Mortgages Under the Microscope -Fortune
“Less than 18 months after the issue was floated, a sixth of the borrowers had already defaulted on their loans.”
Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good"
“you are all being royally screwed over”
“Cromwell; this is an outrage! You are out of line Gekko!!”
"No legacy is so rich as honesty." -William Shakespeare
Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good" Full Speech *read the description*